{"product_id":"my-antonia-paperback-3","title":"My Antonia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Sides\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eTerese Svoboda\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeloved American novelist Willa Cather's nostalgic classic about life on the Midwest prairie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family,  ntonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For her childhood friend Jim Burden,  ntonia comes to embody the elemental spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without compromising the rich, deep power of her nature. And Willa Cather's lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century in a novel that is an epic chronicle of America's past. The novel Cather herself considered her best, \u003ci\u003eMy  ntonia\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare, highly prized works of great literature that not only enriches its readers but immerses them in a tale superbly told. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Marilyn Sides\u003cbr\u003e and an Afterword by Terese Svoboda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilla Cather \u003c\/b\u003e(1873-1948) was born in Winchester, Virginia. Her family moved to Nebraska before she was ten. During her teens she learned both Latin and Greek; she graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. She then taught high school, worked for the Pittsburgh \u003ci\u003eLeader\u003c\/i\u003e, and spent a good deal of time traveling. \u003ci\u003eThe Troll Garden \u003c\/i\u003e(1905) was her first volume of short stories, and it was followed by her appointment as associate editor of \u003ci\u003eMcClure's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She continued in this position for six years, but resigned in 1912 because she felt that the work for the magazine was interfering with her writing. \u003ci\u003eAlexander's Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, a short novel set in Boston, was published in the same year. In\u003ci\u003e O Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e (1913), she turned to her greatest subject, immigrant life on the Nebraska prairies, and established herself as a major American novelist. \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e was followed by more novels, including\u003ci\u003e My Ántonia \u003c\/i\u003e(1918), \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's House \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), and \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e (1927). Cather lived in New York for many years, and she was a familiar figure in intellectual and literary circles. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Beauty and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories, was published posthumously. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Sides\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Island of the Mapmaker's Wife and Other Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, and of a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches literature and fiction writing at Wellesley College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerese Svoboda\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books of prose and poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Bohemian Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eAtlantic, Yale Review, Poetry, Bomb, Paris Review, Harvard Review, Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other magazines. 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