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My ÁntoniaOn the coverThe Lackawanna Valley, George Inness, c. 1855
My Ántonia
Looking back from adulthood, a man recalls the spirited immigrant girl Ántonia and their shared childhood on the raw Nebraska prairie, in a luminous elegy for the frontier and the friends who shape us. Cather’s beloved masterpiece.
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A quietly perfect novel about land, memory, and the people who mark us for life, suffused with the huge light of the prairie. Gentle, deep, and unforgettable.
SettingNebraska, 1880s
The immigrant farming frontier of 1880s Nebraska, where European settlers broke the endless grassland and built a new world out of sod and hope.