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O Pioneers!: A Classic American Novel of Prairie Life, Immigrant Struggle, and Endurance
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435341
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
O Pioneers! is Willa Cather's landmark novel of prairie life, immigrant settlement, land, labour, love, and endurance on the Nebraska frontier. Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's struggling farm and gradually transforms hardship into prosperity through intelligence, patience, and an almost visionary understanding of the land. Around her, Cather builds a world of immigrant families, harsh seasons, economic risk, emotional restraint, and private longing.
First published in 1913, O Pioneers! was the novel that established Cather's mature voice and began the great prairie sequence that would continue with The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. The book is both regional and mythic: a story of the American frontier, but also a study of vocation, sacrifice, and the strange bond between human beings and the country they try to make habitable. Project Gutenberg's subject listings identify the novel with farm life, women pioneers, women farmers, women immigrants, and Swedish Americans, all central to the book's discovery frame.
For readers of American classics, prairie fiction, immigrant fiction, women's literary fiction, and early twentieth-century historical fiction, O Pioneers! remains one of Cather's essential works: spare, luminous, unsentimental, and deeply rooted in the moral and emotional life of the Great Plains.
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