My Antonia (Great Plains trilogy #3)
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The moving portrait of an orphan boy and immigrant girl who find hardship -- and love -- on the American prairie. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A...
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The moving portrait of an orphan boy and immigrant girl who find hardship -- and love -- on the American prairie. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743487696 (0743487699)
Publish date: June 29th 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Cather's book is about immigration, romanticism, symbolism, classism, and sexism.On one hand, the story is suppose to be about Antonia, the eldest daughter of recent immigrates to the American prairie. But it is more about what Antonia represents to those around her. Beauty, childhood, the prairie i...
This is one of those classics that didn't do much for me, unfortunately. It's the sort of book teenagers forced to read it for school must loathe, full of lengthy, vivid descriptions of the landscape and without a driving plot - rather, it describes a couple of people growing up. Certainly it is a w...
A most poignant fictional story told as a memoir by Jim Burden of his childhood friend Antonia. At the turn of the century in the late 1800's, Jim is orphaned and moves from Virginia to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska prairie and a life of farming. The Burdens are a perfect example of n...
Man, I love this book. I tried reading it once before, 10 or 15 years ago, and let the "frame" stand in the way. (To be fair, it's pretty lame—as most frames are.) So glad I gave it another shot, though, and got past that this time. Cather's writing here is on a par with O Pioneers!. She fleshes o...
After reading a real boy's book like Lonesome Dove, this one paled in comparison to the action. Willa Cather's prose was pretty but I've been spoiled by modernism and wasn't all that impressed with it. The plot was also mild and bordered on boring. I was also sick while I read it though, so I may ha...
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