Antonia Shimerda--Bohemian immigrant and embodiment of the American myth--has come to the Nebraska Prairie with her family to carve out a better way of life on the virgin plain. But even for the most seasoned frontiersmen, farming is ...

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

Based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad this novel traces the life of Thea Kronberg, a singer who leaves small-town Colorado to go to Chicago to study music, where she rises to the top of her profession. After a t...

My antonia, considered the greatest novel written by American writer Willa Cather, tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian fam...

On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, he surveys his life and the people ...

In the first of Willa Cather's renowned prairie novels, Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death and falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they left behind. Reprint.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for ...

Enduring stories that are as relevant today as they were when written at the turn of the century by influential women writers. Includes: "On the Divide" and "The Garden Lodge" by Willa Cather; "A Point at Issu...

Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart gropes a wistful way back to the time of the horse and buggy, when some men and some women loved deeply and truly and make themselves miserable and hugged their misery.Small towns, no less than Vienna and ...

An incredible novel strength and resilience that celebrates the tremendous spirit of the immigrant pioneers in AmericaMy Ántonia chronicles the life of Ántonia, a Bohemian immigrant woman, as seen through the eyes of Jim, the man un...

In the first of Willa Cather's renowned prairie novels, Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death and falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

One of Ours is Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienat...

After studying piano as a child, Thea Kronborg leaves her family and their frontier town of Moonstone, Colorado to pursue music in Chicago. There, her instructor insists that her singing voice is her greater gift, and she begins to wo...

This collection of Willa Cather's stories--her first book of fiction--is as readable and relevant today as when it was first published. Each story is different, but all of them share as their subject the role of the artist in American...

This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather's masterpiece a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley.In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning h...

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