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Willa Cather

It’s nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and prairie life in the Great Plains of America is harsh and unforgiving. Willa Cather’s writing effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of immigrants as they make a new life in the states.

The Great Plains Collection is the complete set of Willa Cather’s masterful trilogy in one volume. At the turn of the twentieth century, European immigrants were settling into North America. Prairie life was a challenge and this collection of books depicts the stories of three characters as they find their footing against the glorious backdrop of Nebraska countryside.
 

Written between 1913 and 1918, this volume contains the novels:

- O Pioneers!
- The Song of the Lark
- My Ántonia

Follow Cather’s protagonists, Alexandra Bergson, Thea Kronborg, and Jim Burden as they develop successful farmland, become accomplished artists, and find happiness within family life. Featuring strong female protagonists, romance, and truthful accounts of early American life, this collection would make an ideal read for those interested in the history of immigration. This edition contains an introductory excerpt from H. L. Mencken.

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The Great Plains Collection - Three Volumes in One: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, & My Ántonia

Headstrong and iron-willed, Alexandra Bergson is devoted to securing success for her family. This novel captures what it meant to be an immigrant in twentieth-century America.

At a time when most immigrant families were giving up, the father of a Swedish-American family passes away, leaving his daughter to look after their farm on the prairie. Determined to help her family prosper, Alexandra makes many sacrifices to enterprise the farm. Set against the beautiful Nebraskan scenery, Willa Cather’s remarkable novel is an elegy for the pioneers that shaped modern-day America.

First published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in the Great Plains trilogy. A fantastic read, not to be missed by those with an interest in life on the American Great Plains. This edition features an excerpt from Willa Cather – Written For The Borzoi (1920) by H. L. Mencken.

O Pioneers!: With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

First published in 1915, The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather. The second book of her Great Plains trilogy, it is the sequel to O Pioneers! (1913) and prequel to My Ántonia (1918). 

The story revolves around a talented Colorado artist who turns her hand to singing to the backdrop of a burgeoning American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918). She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). This edition contains an introductory excerpt from H. L. Mencken.

The Song of the Lark: With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

My Ántonia is a 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather. The last book of her Great Plains trilogy, it is considered to be among her best works and proceeds O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.
 

The novel continues the tale of the two children brought to the pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century: Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda.

Cather's My Ántonia is her masterpiece and constitutes a must-read for fans of her fantastic frontier fiction.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from Willa Cather by H. L. Mencken.

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