Willa Cather
My Ántonia
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather
English · 1918 · Fiction
Willa Cather's novel recalls a Bohemian immigrant girl and pioneer life on the Nebraska prairie, read for its lyrical evocation of landscape and memory.
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Epigraph Dedication Introduction Book I: The Shimerdas Chapter I I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey… Chapter II I do not remember our arrival at my grandfather’s farm sometime… Chapter III On Sunday Morning Otto Fuchs was to drive us over to make the… Chapter IV On the afternoon of that same Sunday I took my first long ride on my… Chapter V We knew that things were hard for our Bohemian neighbors, but the two… Chapter VI One afternoon we were having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy… Chapter VII Much as I liked Ántonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes… Chapter VIII While the autumn color was growing pale on the grass and cornfields… Chapter IX The first snowfall came early in December. I remember how the world… Chapter X For several weeks after my sleigh-ride, we heard nothing from the… Chapter XI During the week before Christmas, Jake was the most important person… Chapter XII On Christmas morning, when I got down to the kitchen, the men were… Chapter XIII The week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year’s Day… Chapter XIV On the morning of the 22nd I wakened with a start. Before I opened my… Chapter XV Otto Fuchs got back from Black Hawk at noon the next day. He reported… Chapter XVI Mr. Shimerda lay dead in the barn four days, and on the fifth they… Chapter XVII When spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of… Chapter XVIII After I began to go to the country school, I saw less of the… Chapter XIX July came on with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the… Book II: The Hired Girls Chapter I I had been living with my grandfather for nearly three years when he… Chapter II Grandmother often said that if she had to live in town, she thanked… Chapter III On Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Ántonia jumped… Chapter IV We were singing rhymes to tease Ántonia while she was beating up one… Chapter V After Lena came to Black Hawk, I often met her downtown, where she… Chapter VI Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The… Chapter VII Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and… Chapter VIII The Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more… Chapter IX There was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men… Chapter X It was at the Vannis’ tent that Ántonia was discovered. Hitherto she… Chapter XI Wick Cutter was the moneylender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter.… Chapter XII After Ántonia went to live with the Cutters, she seemed to care about… Chapter XIII I noticed one afternoon that grandmother had been crying. Her feet… Chapter XIV The day after Commencement I moved my books and desk upstairs, to an… Chapter XV Late in August the Cutters went to Omaha for a few days, leaving… Book III: Lena Lingard Chapter I At the University I had the good fortune to come immediately under… Chapter II One March evening in my Sophomore year I was sitting alone in my room… Chapter III In Lincoln the best part of the theatrical season came late, when the… Chapter IV How well I remember the stiff little parlor where I used to wait for… Book IV: The Pioneer Woman’s Story Chapter I Two years after I left Lincoln I completed my academic course at… Chapter II Soon after I got home that summer, I persuaded my grandparents to… Chapter III On the first or second day of August I got a horse and cart and set… Chapter IV The next afternoon I walked over to the Shimerdas’. Yulka showed me… Book V: Cuzak’s Boys Chapter I I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was… Chapter II When I awoke in the morning, long bands of sunshine were coming in at… Chapter III After dinner the next day I said goodbye and drove back to Hastings… Get a printed copy via Print-on-Demand
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