![]() I could just picture everything so vividly in my mind. I loved the way it was written, it was so descriptive and beautifully written. "I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get through this book, it being a classic book, but I loved it. ![]() Infused with a gracious passion for the land, My Ántonia is a deeply moving portrait of an entire community and its way of life. Holding the pastoral society’s heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Ántonia. Guiding the way are some of literature’s most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Ántonia’s desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Through Jim Burden’s endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. ![]() Widely recognized as Willa Cather’s finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska. ![]()
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