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. "Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda,...

"My Antonia(1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows"--- back cover.

Will Hopkins' new housekeeper is the prettiest young woman he's ever seen -- and that's the problem. He'd thought Abigail Stewart was a middle-aged matron well-suited to hardscrabble prairie life. Even if his young sons are entranced by Abby's wholesome kindness, for the sake of propriety and his guarded heart, Will must send her back east... This job had been Abby's chance of escape from her unhappy home. Now it turns out her employer is a rugged...

This novel paints the portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. The novel is written in the third person using the perspective of character Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. The author portrays the moral disintegration of that lovable...

Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.

In these portraits of pioneer women, the strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered.