Three Novels: O Pioneers!, the Song of the Lark, and My Antonia
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0786705981 / Publisher: Carroll & Graf, July 1998
Complete in one volume, here are three of the most adored works by early 20th-century writer Willa Cather. O PIONEERS! (1913) tells embodies American heroism in one pioneer woman. THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915) plots a great Wagnerian soprano's journey toward her destiny. MY ANTONIA (1918), is the story of a strong farm woman who still affirms her passion for the land after her father's suicide and desertion by her lover.
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O Pioneers!: Alexandra Bergson, her instincts tuned to the forces of nature, brings the land and her dreams to bountiful fruition.The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg journeys from Colorado to Chicago and then the Southwest in pursuit of her destiny as a celebrated Wagnerian soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.My Antonia: Antonia Shimerda, mystical and mythical, suffers the agony of her father's suicide and her husband's desertion but never loses her passion for life and the land.
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