Alexandra looked at him mournfully. “I try to be more liberal about such things than I used to be. I try to realize that we are not all made alike.”Everything in O Pioneers! is beauty to me. I am so in love with this book. Maybe it is because I have it in my brain that pioneers by definition suc...
Willa Cather has a way with the English language. Stark, simplistic and yet utterly poetic in its descriptions. Just like the Nebraska farmland, on the surface O Pioneers appears sparse and flat. However, just like Alexandra, the reader so determines that there is an unspoken depth and beauty to...
O Pioneers! is a novel that is more concerned with painting a portrait of pioneer life in Nebraska at the turn of the century rather than plot. However, this is no ordinary group of settlers Cather chooses to follow. Her main character, Alexandra Bergson, is chosen by her father on his deathbed to r...
A story that I really didn't think I would get into at all (read it for a Novel class). Praries and such were never my thing. But this book was so well written and engaging in a way I did not expect. It was so emotional and so sad that I actually cried (quite unexpected!). A very very good book.
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