Willa Cather

Broschiertes Buch

O Pioneers!;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

Beschreibung

Headstrong and iron-willed, Alexandra Bergson is devoted to securing success for her family. This novel captures what it meant to be an immigrant in twentieth-century America. At a time when most immigrant families were giving up, the father of a Swedish-American family passes away, leaving his daughter to look after their farm on the prairie. Determined to help her family prosper, Alexandra makes many sacrifices to enterprise the farm. Set against the beautiful Nebraskan scenery, Willa Cather's remarkable novel is an elegy for the pioneers that shaped modern-day America. First published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in the Great Plains trilogy. A fantastic read, not to be missed by those with an interest in life on the American Great Plains. This edition features an excerpt from Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi (1920) by H. L. Mencken.

Autor

Willa Sibert Cather is well-known for her Great Plains-set books, such as O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia. Her novel One of Ours, which takes place during World War I, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. When Willa Cather was nine years old, her family relocated from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska. Afterwards, the family made Red Cloud, Minnesota, their home. Cather spent ten years in Pittsburgh after earning her degree from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, where she worked as a high school English teacher and magazine editor to support herself. She made her lifelong home in New York City when she moved there at the age of 33, though she also traveled extensively and made frequent trips to her summer house on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She lived her final 39 years with Edith Lewis, her domestic partner, before receiving a breast cancer diagnosis and passing away from a brain hemorrhage. Beside her, in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire, plot, lies Lewis. As a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience, Cather attained prominence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9781408689776
• ISBN-10: 1408689774
• Artikelnr.: 24856308