Giants in the Earth | Literary Precedents
In Willa Cather's My Antonia (1918), a family of Bohemian immigrants confronts the hardships of pioneer life, including poverty and suicide, on the Nebraska plains.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of nobility and frontier adventure during the French and Indian War.
In A Doll's House (1879), one of the realistic plays for which Henrik Ibsen is best known, Nora Helmer courageously cuts herself loose from her degrading marriage of eight years to seek an independent life.
Mark Twain humorously recalls his...
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