First published in 1918, "My Antonia" is the final book of Willa Cather\'s "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by "O Pioneers " and "The Song of the Lark." It is the classic story of the daughter of the immigrant Bohemian Shimerda family that sets out to farm the untamed prairie land of Nebraska in the late 19th century.
He did not want to leave his homeland where he had a home, a trade, and friends, but does so because.
The father of the family finds the demands of this new life unbearable.
First published in 1918, "My Antonia" is the final book of Willa Cather\'s "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by "O Pioneers " and "The Song of the Lark." It is the classic story of the daughter of the immigrant Bohemian Shimerda family that sets out to farm the untamed prairie land of Nebraska in the late 19th century
