Oxford World's Classics My Antonia, (Paperback)

from RandyMetcalfe

Jim Burden narrates the story of his life growing up in Nebraska as an orphan boy living with his grandparents and especially of his encounters, from his moment of arrival there, with Ántonia, the daughter of a neighbouring family of newly arrived Bohemian immigrants. Jim's Ántonia is ever the Án...

from k8_not_kate

This is a lovely book. Willa Cather tells her story about growing up in the kind of episodic way that most childhoods are remembered in. And, really, My Antonia is about memory, maybe more so than anything else. Cather explores the memories of Jim Burden and his friend Antonia growing up on the N...

from GraceZ

Another great book from Willa Cather. Though I like O Pioneers more, My Antonia was really interesting because of the narrator and the informal way it was written, with a strange approach to the sequence of events because it is simply one man recalling every encounter he had with Antonia. The end...

from janemarieprice

What a beautiful and wonderful surprise this was. Going in, I knew that this was (1) about Nebraska, and (2) in the realm of things I usually like. I know very little about Nebraska except that there is lots of corn, and they are passionate about their college football. So, though I expected to l...

from DeltaQueen50

My Antonia by Willa Cather is a beautifully written book that seemed to me to be like a series of essays. I loved each separate story with all it's rich descriptions of homesteading life on the Nebraska plains. The narrator, a young boy growing into manhood is perfectly done, his inquisitive mind...