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Title: My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition Series) by Charles Mignon, Kari Ronning, James Leslie Woodress, Willa Silbert Cather ISBN: 0-8032-6372-4 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (216 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: My Antonia
Comment: My Antonia
My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is an illustration of two friends growing up together, and their rite of passage from childhood to adulthood, they stick together through loss of love, and help each other grow as individuals. Though they are both going to Nebraska for different reasons, Antonia, and her family are immigrating from Bohemia, and Jim, to live with his grandparents, due to the death of his mother and father. In spite of all their hardships in life, and differences, they remain friends even after thirty years, though they both went opposite directions after they arrived on the same path into Nebraska.
As this book continues, it becomes more and more obvious that Jim grows up letting life mold his character, making him easily influenced by other. Antonia's character molds life, making it so that she can adapt to her environment easily. Antonia is a strong, free spirited girl that is grounded by her Nebraska farmland, and she'd "like to be where I know every stack and tree, and where all the ground is friendly." Jim follows the same footsteps as the other men in his town, leaving Black Hawk, and moving on. However, when he leaves, he realizes that more than anything else, he misses his past and Antonia.
When he returns to Black Hawk on a visit, he realizes that Antonia and himself are growing into their adulthood, and that they will spend their last moment together as children. Jim says, "life can't stand still, not even in the quietest country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no." When he leaves again he says that he "could almost believe that a boy and a girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass." Jim tries to tell the reader the he does not really enjoy life anymore, and that he is leaving his roots behind him, because it is what is expected of him.
Finally after Antonia's pregnancy and loss of love, she settles down with another husband and children. Jim decides to go back home, at the end of the book; he finds himself walking down the road that he and Antonia arrived on, as children, thirty years ago. He now had a "sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience it." The road that separated them, suddenly brings them together, again. "...whatever he had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
Rating: 4
Summary: A beautiful novel
Comment: This is, quite simply, a beautiful novel. It's not my favorite novel,but it was the first one of Cather's that I've read. I plan on reading more. Her eloquent words inspire the soul.
Rating: 5
Summary: Coming of age on the American prairie
Comment: Willa Cather's quiet masterpiece will continue to be read and loved way on into the future. My Antonia is a coming-of-age story of love, respect, commitment, and perseverance set on the Nebraska prairie. Antonia Shimerda, the child of immigrant Bohemians, arrives in Black Hawk, Nebraska at the same time as the narrator, Jim Burden, a recently orphaned 10yo who has come to live with his grandparents. The novel chronicles the bitter challenges Antonia's poverty-stricken family faces alongside the growing admiration and affection Jim feels for the sturdy and lovely Antonia.
No one should progress into middle age without reading this marvelous pioneer story. My Antonia was Cather's personal favorite of her many novels, and perhaps it will become yours, too.
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Title: My Antonia (Cliffs Notes) by Susan Van Kirk, David Kubicek, Mildred R. Bennett ISBN: 0764586513 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather ISBN: 0679743626 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather ISBN: 0679728899 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Doris Grumbach ISBN: 0395345308 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 10 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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