(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Of ntonia, the passionate and majestic central character in Willa Cather\'s greatest novel, the narrator, Jim Burden, says that she left "images in the mind that did not fade-that grew stronger with time." The same is true of the book in which Cather enshrines her heroine.
There she joined.
After graduation she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City.
By the time she went to the University of Nebraska in 1891-where she began by wearing boy\'s clothes and cut her hair close to her head-she had decided to be a writer.
The oldest of seven children, she was educated at home, studied with a Latin neighbor, and read the English classics in the evening.
Because she is so famous for her Nebraska novels, many people assume she was born there, but Wila Cather was about nine years old when her family moved to a small Nebraska frontier town called Red Cloud that was populated by immigrant Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, and Russians.
About the Author: Wila Cather was probably born in Virginia in 1873, although her parents did not register the date, and it is probably incorrectly given on her tombstone.
In its magnificent tableaux of human beings caught in the toils of an abundant and overpowering natural world, and in the quiet, understated sympathy it displays for life of every sort, My ntonia is a novel that effortlessly encompasses history and wilderness 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.
On another, it is a novel that represents a perfect marriage of form and feeling.
On one level, My ntonia is a straight?forward narrative, written in limpid prose of uncanny descriptive accuracy, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Of ntonia, the passionate and majestic central character in Willa Cather\'s greatest novel, the narrator, Jim Burden, says that she left "images in the mind that did not fade-that grew stronger with time." The same is true of the book in which Cather enshrines her heroine
