This novel is set at the turn of the twentieth century. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity and safeguard the fortune of her brothers. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, sh[...]
Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its first publication, O Pioneers is a moving tale of family, love and resilience by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. One of Cather's Great Plains novels, it is a true, quintessential American classic, vividly depicting prairie frontier living and [...]
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.[...]
* The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by her exquisite voice * Strongly autobiographical * 'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A.S. BYATT[...]
'People can be lovers and enemies at the same time. We were...' Through the eyes of a young girl, Nellie, we view the life of Myra, a legend in the Southern town where both were born. Myra has romantically abandoned the luxury she was born into to elope with the impoverished Oswald Henshawe. Twenty-[...]
Hinter jedem verrückten Formen-Wirrwarr verbirgt sich ein lustiges Bild. Die Frage ist nur - wo? Sind alle nummerierten Felder in der richtigen Farbe ausgemalt, wird das Motiv sichtbar.[...]
This monograph seeks to reconstruct the culture of the pioneer woman as presented in O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, and Willa Cather's My Antonia. Essentially, the textual analyses show the pioneer woman's evolving and dynamic reaction to bot[...]