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Willa CatherRandom House Inc / 1990 / Trade PaperbackOur Price$12.37Retail Price$16.00Save 23% ($3.63)Availability: In StockStock No: WW28899
(PUBVintage)"One of the top 100 religious books of the 20th century,"---Christianity Today. A novel based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste L'Amy and his vicar Joseph Machebeut, this is a story of triumph over natural adversity, corrupt Spanish priests, and indifferent Hopi and Navajo. 297 pages, softcover.
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Willa CatherBantam / 2008 / Trade PaperbackOur Price$6.94Availability: Expected to ship on or about 10/07/26.Stock No: WW213580
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."
My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend Ántonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life.
Working in the fields of waving grass and tall corn that dot the Great Plains, Ántonia forges the durable spirit that will carry her through the challenges she faces when she moves to the city. But only when she returns to the prairie does she recover her strength and regain a sense of purpose in life. In the quiet, probing depth of Willa Cather's art, Ántonia's story becomes a mobbing elegy to those whose persistence and strength helped build the American frontier.
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Willa CatherHarpercollins Publishing / 1995 / Trade PaperbackOur Price$5.87Retail Price$10.99Save 47% ($5.12)Availability: In StockStock No: WW755142
One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains.
Through Jim Burden’s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration.
With a Foreword by Kathleen Norris
