O Pioneers! (Annotated)

O Pioneers! (Annotated)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
9798663649384
Pages
154
Language
English
Published
2020-07-04
Publisher
Independently Published
Author
Willa Cather

Description

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her frontier novels of life on the Great Plains, including Oh Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during the First World War.Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At 33, she moved to New York City, her main home for the rest of her life, although she also traveled extensively and spent considerable time at her summer residence in Grand.