O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. This is her second published novel.
In this landmark of American fiction, Cather tells the story of young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm.
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, this volume presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel.
She possesses the strength of the pioneers that the author knew in her Midwestern youth. Writing O Pioneers! was for Cather 'like taking a ride through a familiar country on a horse that knew the way.'
The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.
... with rivers and green fields all about. And you will visit an old lady with a white cap and gold hoops in her ears, and you will be very happy there." "Mais, oui," said the priest, with a melancholy smile. "C'est L'Isle-Adam, ...
O Pioneers! Willa Cather Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).
"O Pioneers! vividly recalls the stories of the immigrant settlers Cather knew during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud." -- publisher's description.
About O pioneers by Willa Cather Set on the Nebraska prairie where Willa Cather (1873-1947) grew up, this powerful early novel tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the ...
It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My ntonia (1918).Willa Sibert Cather December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947 was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of ...