Willa Cather's novel in which Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from “Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920” by H. L. Mencken.
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!by Willa Cather"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers!
"O Pioneers! vividly recalls the stories of the immigrant settlers Cather knew during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud." -- publisher's description.
Cather came to terms with a literary inheritance that was both patrilineal and matrilineal, and claimed her rightful place as 'daughter in a literary family headed by Walt Whitman and Sarah Orne Jewett' (The Emerging Voice, 439).
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.
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
V11 PART I The Wild Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l PART II Neighboring Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 PART III Winter Memories.
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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.
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.
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.'
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Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is often hailed as a masterwork of American regionalism for its memorable vignettes of life in a fishing village on the coast of Maine. Cather, who got to know Jewett in the last year of ...
PIONEER THREE . INTO DUST . PIONEER ONE . MAY SIXTEEN : SOW WHEAT AGAIN PIONEER THREE . STILL I PLOW PIONEER TWO . AND I PLANT AND WAIT WHILE THE DIRT GROWS PIONEER THREE . ONLY DUST AND MY TEARS PIONEER TWO . AND MY TEARS PIONEER ONE .
O Pioneers!
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.
Willa Cather's first Great Plains novel, is at once a love letter to Nebraska and the tale of a remarkable heroine who remains resilient in the face of tragedy. ‘She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers’ Observer ...