![]() ![]() Both the narrator and Jim now reside in New York, but they grew up in the same Nebraskan prairie town Jim is now a lawyer for a Western railroad company. The novel begins with an unnamed narrator unexpectedly encountering a childhood friend, Jim Burden, aboard a train crossing Iowa. This guide is based on the 1918 Houghton Mifflin edition.Ĭontent Warning: This guide contains discussions of suicide and sexual assault that are present in the source text. ![]() ![]() Other notable books authored by Cather include A Lost Lady (1923) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). Known for her novels’ powerful sense of place, Cather elevated regional literature into the mainstream and created heroic portrayals of the often scorned hard-toiling European immigrants. My Ántonia is considered one of Cather’s most outstanding novels for its encapsulation of the pioneer experience on the Nebraskan frontier. The other two books, O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915) also feature strong female characters from immigrant families in a Great Plains setting but are otherwise unrelated. ![]() My Ántonia, first published in 1918, is the third novel in what reviewers sometimes refer to as “The Prairie Trilogy” or “The Great Plains Trilogy” by celebrated American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). ![]()
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