Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers.
Benda\'s illustrations further illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience..
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She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warmhearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie.
Old immigrant neighbors inspired many of the characters, particularly the heroine.
Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for this, her fourth novel, published in 1918.
Mencken declared it one of the best [novels] any American has ever done.
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For Oliver Wendell Holmes, My Ántonia had unfailing charm, perhaps not to be defined; a beautiful tenderness, a vivifying imagination that transforms but does not distort or exaggerate.
Cather called My Ántonia the best thing I\'ve done.
Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers
