O Pioneers!
$28.69
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2011
Summary
First published in 1913, the novel that made Willa Cather famous is a powerfully mythic tale of the transformation of the American frontier as seen through the life of one extraordinary woman. At the turn of the twentieth century, when their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity and safeguard the fortune of her brothers. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she succeeds against all odds, but only at the cost of her own fulfillment as a woman. Central to the novel’s action is the Nebraskan landscape it describes, by turns unyielding and fruitful, bitter and ecstatic.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593419 |
| Author: | Willa Cather, Elaine Showalter |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 132mm x 208mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
You Can Find This Book In
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Novels
- Alexander’s Bridge (1912)
- O Pioneers! (1913)
- The Song of the Lark (1915)
- My Ántonia (1918)
- One of Ours (1922)
- A Lost Lady (1923)
- The Professor’s House (1925)
- My Mortal Enemy (1926)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
- Shadows on the Rock (1931)
- Lucy Gayheart (1935)
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
Short Fiction
- The Troll Garden (1905)
- Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
- Obscure Destinies (1932)
- The Old Beauty and Others (1948)
- Willa Cather’s Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 (1965)
- Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather’s Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 (1972)
Introducer Biography
Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing.
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