O Pioneers!
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241338353
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99

O Pioneers!

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5 Sep 2019
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2 Aug 2018
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1 Jan 1994
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19 Nov 2019
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20 Aug 2018
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1 May 2012
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1 Jan 1994
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30 Sep 2011
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The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American.
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241338353
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Willa Cather

Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940
Short Fiction

The Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 1972

Introducer Biography: Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

Also by Willa Cather

A Lost Lady
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
Alexander's Bridge
The Song of the Lark
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Praise for O Pioneers!

Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page

Marina Warner

The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us

Rebecca West

Takes a knife and stabs you through the heart, by its joining of such ravishment with such pessimism

New Yorker