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portada O Pioneers! (The Great Plains Trilogy)
Type
Physical Book
Introduction by
Publisher
Year
1994
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.7 x 13.0 x 1.2 cm
Weight
0.19 kg.
ISBN
0140187758
ISBN13
9780140187755
Edition No.
01

O Pioneers! (The Great Plains Trilogy)

Willa Cather (Author) · Blanche H. Gelfant (Introduction by) · Penguin Group · Paperback

O Pioneers! (The Great Plains Trilogy) - Cather, Willa ; Gelfant, Blanche H.

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Synopsis "O Pioneers! (The Great Plains Trilogy)"

The first of Cather's renowned prairie novels, O Pioneers! established a new voice in American literature--turning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary characters. O Pioneers! was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier--and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself. At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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