O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary womanOne of America's greatest writers, Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel--the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America's Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather's novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather's great heroines--all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather's books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: "The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us."
Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage.
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Mythologies
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Notes from Underground
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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The Aeneid
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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The Trial
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War and Peace
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A Room with a View
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The Idiot
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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The End of the Affair
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The Sun Also Rises
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Madame Bovary
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Demons
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Forty Stories
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Orlando
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The Ways of White Folks
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The Professor's House
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Finnegans Wake
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Dead Souls
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Why Read the Classics?
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Jane Eyre
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
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Wuthering Heights
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
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My Antonia
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
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The Ink Dark Moon
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Hadji Murat
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Shadows on the Rock
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One of Ours (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Swann's Way
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The Double and The Gambler
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The Physiology of Taste
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Notes from a Dead House
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Little Women
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The Complete Enderby
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The Song of the Lark
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
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Stamboul Train
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Under the Jaguar Sun
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The Scarlet Letter
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Howards End
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author best known for her novels about life on the Great Plains' frontier, such as O Pioneers! One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather was born in Virginia and raised in Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She spent eleven years in Pittsburgh, working as a magazine editor and high school English teacher to support herself. She relocated to New York City at the age of 33, where she spent the rest of her life, but she also traveled extensively and spent time at her summer house on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679743620 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679743626 |
| Title | O Pioneers! |
| Author | Willa Cather |
| Series | Vintage Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1992-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |