My Antonia (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Of Antonia the passionate heroine of Willa Cather's greatest novel the narrator says that she left 'images in the mind that did not fade - that grew stronger with time'. The same could be said of the novel itself. On one level it is a straighforward story beautifully written of the struggle for survival of a family of pioneers on the vast Nebraska plains. On another it encompasses history the relationship ofhuman beings and the natural world and the destiny of the individual - even as it lovingly and unsentimentally portrays a woman whose robust spirit and enduring warmth make her emblematic of what Cather most admired in the American people.'The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.' - Leon Edel Review 'The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.' ―Leon EdelNo romantic novel ever written in America by man or woman is one half so beautiful asMy Ántonia. ―H. L. Mencken About the Author Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940 Short FictionThe Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction 1915-1929 1972 Introducer Biography Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers A Jury of Her Peers and the classic A Literature of Their Own British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. <p>Of Antonia, the passionate heroine of Willa Cather's greatest novel, the narrator says that she left 'images in the mind that did not fade - that grew stronger with time'. The same could be said of the novel itself. On one level it is a straighforward story, beautifully written, of the struggle for survival of a family of pioneers on the vast Nebraska plains. On another it encompasses history, the relationship ofhuman beings and the natural world, and the destiny of the individual - even as it lovingly and unsentimentally portrays a woman whose robust spirit and enduring warmth make her emblematic of what Cather most admired in the American people.<br><br>'The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.' - <i>Leon Edel</i></p>