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Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Release Year
2011
ISBN
9780307700919

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307700917
ISBN-13
9780307700919
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109097368

Product Key Features

Book Title
O Pioneers! : Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Author
Willa Cather
Book Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-023543
Reviews
The land belongs to the future... that's the way it seems to me....I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier -- and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself. At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Synopsis
The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman--in a handsome hardcover volume. No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine of O Pioneers!, Alexandra Bergson, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's windblasted land and, through years of hard work, turns it into a prosperous farm. Fiercely independent, Alexandra sacrifices love and companionship in her passionate devotion to the land, until tragedy strikes and brings with it the chance for a new life. One of our most beloved classics, one of the great heroines of American literature., The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman--in a handsome hardcover volume. No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine of O Pioneers , Alexandra Bergson, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's windblasted land and, through years of hard work, turns it into a prosperous farm. Fiercely independent, Alexandra sacrifices love and companionship in her passionate devotion to the land, until tragedy strikes and brings with it the chance for a new life. One of our most beloved classics, one of the great heroines of American literature.
LC Classification Number
PS3505.A87O2 2011

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