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1) My Ántonia
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Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by
...2) My Antonia
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Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daugher of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
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Elizabeth's eastern upbringing in a well-to-do family has not prepared her for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. But she takes on her formidable task with love, humor, and determination not to become romantically involved with a frontiersman. When she meets Wynn, Beth discovers that he would ''never ask a woman he loved'' to share the perils in the life of a Royal Canadian Mountie! Can Beth change his mind? Will Wynn listen...? BRODART...
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