My Ántonia (Historical Novel). Willa Cather

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       Willa Cather

      My Ántonia

      (Historical Novel)

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      2019 OK Publishing

      EAN 4064066052485

Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Book I— The Shimerdas

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       Book II— The Hired Girls

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       Book III— Lena Lingard

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       Book IV— The Pioneer Woman’s Story

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       Book V— Cuzak’s Boys

       I

       II

       III

      Introduction

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      LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden — Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I are old friends — we grew up together in the same Nebraska town — and we had much to say to each other. While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we sat in the observation car, where the woodwork was hot to the touch and red dust lay deep over everything. The dust and heat, the burning wind, reminded us of many things. We were talking about what it is like to spend one’s childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky,