Willa Cather
2) My Antonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2018
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Description
In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose calm, undemonstrative strength and robust high spirits make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrant parents struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist....
4) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Alexandra Bergson is the oldest child of Swedish immigrants new to the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. When her father dies, it is Alexandra who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild land around her.