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1) O pioneers!
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John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother along to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger...
2) My Ántonia
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Antonia Shimerda, the destitute child of Bohemian immigrants, and Jim Burden, a native Virginian who, after being orphaned at the age of ten, is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Jim goes to Harvard, becomes a traveling busnissman,a nd returns to Nebraska infrequently; Antonia elopes with a shiftless railroad conductor, comes home disgraced, and finds happiness with Anton Cuzak, a gentle farmer.
3) My Antonia
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant
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Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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[1983]
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A definitive edition /
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Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society.
5) A lost lady
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"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
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Prairie winds volume 1
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Captured by the Lakota Sioux on a Nebraska prairie, Jesse King discovers God's tender mercies in her friendship with an Indian woman and in her love for the Sioux brave, Rides the Wind.
10) Soaring Eagle
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Prairie winds volume 2
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A gold locket holds a secret for a young widow and a Lakota warrior. Will the difficult choices they must make ever bring them face-to-face?
11) Sixteen Brides
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Sixteen Civil War widows travel from St. Louis, Missouri to Plum Grove, Nebraska, with dreams of owning land and finding love on the prairies.
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
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Bethany House
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"It seems to be a typical U.S. Army post in 1878. But in the midst of regimented daily routines, a grieving sergeant harbors bitterness and guilt in his broken heart, a desperate young woman struggles to recover from the trauma inflicted by unimaginable circumstances, a new recruit with a changed identity seeks to escape the mistakes of his past, and among them, a woman feels called to embrace these people in need and the secrets that cripple them."...
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 2
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Bethany House
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c2004
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A former beauty who left home expecting the best from the world flees back to Fort Robinson for safe haven. Pine Ridge Portraits book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Secrets on the Wind. Readers will be charmed and inspired by the story of Charlotte Valentine, who, in her earlier years, was a flirtatious young beauty in search of an army officer to marry. But the passage of years has made Charlotte a different woman, one in desperate need of a safe...
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Denton & White
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2013.
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"Complete in one volume! The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. - O Pioneers!: Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant families are giving up at the turn of the twentieth century. - The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg is a piano teacher with a voice that came from the heavens. She seeks to use her gift, and in so...
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New American Library
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1989.
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O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier-- and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a...
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