My Ántonia (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Nebraska prairie land
- Principal Characters: Jim Burden, Ántonia Shimerda
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story:
Jim Burden’s father and mother died when he was ten years old, and the boy made the long trip from Virginia to his grandparents’ farm in Nebraska in the company of Jake Marpole, a hired hand who was to work for Jim’s grandfather. Arriving by train in the prairie town of Black Hawk late at night, the boy noticed an immigrant family huddled on the station platform. He and Jake were met by a lanky, scar-faced cowboy named Otto Fuchs, who drove them in a jolting wagon across the empty prairie to the Burden farm.
Jim grew to love the vast expanse of land and...
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