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Introduction BOOK I. The Shimerdas BOOK II. The Hired Girls BOOK III. Lena Lingard BOOK IV. The Pioneer Woman's Story BOOK V. Cuzak's Boys.

Introduction BOOK I. TO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER In memory of affections old and true.

Home Willa Cather My Antonia. THE DAY AFTER COMMENCEMENT I moved my books and desk upstairs, to anempty room where I should be undisturbed, and I fell to studying inearnest. I worked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and beganVirgil alone. Morning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunnylittle room, looking off at the distant river bluffs and the roll of theblond pastures between, scanning the 'Aeneid' aloud and committing longpassages to memory.

By Willa Sibert Cather. Optima dies {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} prima fugit Virgil. Illustration: Immigrant family huddled together on the train : Mr. Shimerda walking on the upland prairie with a gun overhis : Mrs. Shimerda gathering mushrooms in a Bohemian forestIllustration: Jake bringing home a Christmas treeIllustration: Antonia ploughing in the fieldIllustration: Jim and Antonia in the gardenIllustration: Lena Lingard knitting n: Antonia driving her cattle home.

My Ántonia (/ˈæntəniə/ AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. 9 :9. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century

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More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.

3. Book I. The Shimerdas. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood. To speak her name was to call up pictures of people and places, to set a quiet drama going in one's brain. I had lost sight of her altogether, but Jim had found her again after long years, had renewed a friendship that meant a great deal to him, and out of his busy life had set apart time enough to enjoy that friendship. His mind was full of her that day.

My Antonia by Willa Cather, a free text and ebook for easy online reading, study, and reference. My Antonia (1918) is the third book in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, which began with O Pioneers!

My Antonia by Willa Cather, a free text and ebook for easy online reading, study, and reference. My Antonia (1918) is the third book in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, which began with O Pioneers! (1913), and was followed by The Song of the Lark (1915). My Antonia tells the story of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska. Antonia is the eldest daughter of the Shimerdas and is a bold and carefree young woman who becomes the center of narrator Jim Burden's attention.

She suppressed much of her early writing and dismissed serial publication of later work, discarded manuscripts and proofs, destroyed letters, and included in her will a stipulation against publication of her private papers.

Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant . .

The Project Gutenberg Etext My Antonia by Willa Cather . I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the & on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.