My Ántonia
is a 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather. The last book of her
Great Plains
trilogy, it is considered to be among her best works and proceeds
O Pioneers!
and
The Song of the Lark
.
The novel continues the tale of the two children brought to the pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century: Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda.
Cather's
is her masterpiece and constitutes a must-read for fans of her fantastic frontier fiction.
Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel
One of Ours
(1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from
Willa Cather
by H. L. Mencken.