As the novel goes on, some of the character become more “American”: only speaking English at home, leaving customs aside that attract the neighbors’ attention, and always seeking out the latest must-have invention or fad. She portrays not just Swedish people and customs, but also the neighboring Bohemian, French and Germans immigrants. It centers on a Swedish family migrating to Nebraska at the turn of the century, and their struggles and triumphs, with the land and with the neighbors that surround them. O Pioneers! is the first volume of the Great Plains trilogy by Willa Cather. I believe there is a good deal of the cow in most Swedish girls.” Murphy wrote widely on the auto-suggestive and metaphysical faculties of the human mind and is considered one of the pioneering voices of affirmative-thinking philosophy.“Now that I think of it, most of my girls have married men they were afraid of. His pamphlet How to Attract Money first appeared in 1955, and likewise entered many editions. Murphy (1898-1981) was a prolific and widely admired New Thought minister and writer, best known for his motivational classic, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, an international bestseller since it first blazed onto the self-help scene.
In 1933 she was awarded the Prix Femina Americaine “for distinguished literary accomplishments.”
In 1922 Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, the story of a Western boy in World War I. Cather became the managing editor for McClure’s Magazine in 1906 and lived for forty years in New York City with her companion Edith Lewis. She is known for her beautifully evocative short stories and novels about the American West. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia and raised on a Nebraska ranch. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century.
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