empireopf.blogg.se - My antonia first edition

In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. “No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia.”

Sales weren’t smashing (there was a war going on, after all), but steadily increased as the years went by.

The first printing was 3,500 copies and they sold for $1.60 each.

My Antonia was published on September 21, 1918.

The tent is behind Cather in the picture above. Each day she’d walk down from the inn where she was staying into a meadow where her friends set up a tent for her use.

Cather wrote part of this novel in a tent in Jaffrey, New Hamphire.

Cather started writing the novel after having spent three months in Red Cloud, NE during which time her mother was ill and Cather took on the household work, including cooking for eight.

Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown.A Chronology of Cather's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included.'Criticism' spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Ántonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text.'Contexts and Backgrounds' is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel's central themes: 'Autobiographical and Biographical Writings,' 'Letters,' and 'Americanization and Immigration.' Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. Ántonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. Neuware - Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie.