My Ántonia
- ISBN-10
- 0140187642
- ISBN-13
- 9780140187649
- Series
- My Ántonia
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Willa Cather
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation immigrants.
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