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Fiction · 1918

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

Reading time
about 6 h
Length
82,189 words · 218 pages in print
Structure
45 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

Jim Burden, orphaned at ten and sent out to his grandparents in Nebraska, arrives on the same night train as a Bohemian family, and spends the rest of his life measuring himself against their eldest daughter, Ántonia Shimerda. The prairie, the first winter, the town of Black Hawk and the hired girls who come in from the farms make up the rest.

Willa Cather published the novel in 1918, the last of the three books she set on the plains she had been brought to as a child. It has almost no plot; it is held together by landscape, by work and by memory, and it is generally reckoned her finest book.

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Introduction
  3. Book I — The Shimerdas
  4. I
  5. II
  6. III
  7. IV
  8. V
  9. VI
  10. VII
  11. VIII
  12. IX
  13. X
  14. XI
  15. XII
  16. XIII
  17. XIV
  18. XV
  19. XVI
  20. XVII
  21. XVIII
  22. XIX
  23. Book II — The Hired Girls
  24. I
  25. II
  26. III
  27. IV
  28. V
  29. VI
  30. VII
  31. VIII
  32. IX
  33. X
  34. XI
  35. XII
  36. XIII
  37. XIV
  38. XV
  39. Book III — Lena Lingard
  40. I
  41. II
  42. III
  43. IV
  44. Book IV — The Pioneer Woman’s Story
  45. I
  46. II
  47. III
  48. IV
  49. Book V — Cuzak’s Boys
  50. I
  51. II
  52. III

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Willa Cather

1873–1947 · Modern

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