O Pioneers! (Annotated)
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, composed while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).

O Pioneers! depicts the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies and devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.

This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, characters, plot, narration, impact, biographical and bibliographical information.
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O Pioneers! (Annotated)
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, composed while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).

O Pioneers! depicts the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies and devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.

This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, characters, plot, narration, impact, biographical and bibliographical information.
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O Pioneers! (Annotated)

O Pioneers! (Annotated)

by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! (Annotated)

O Pioneers! (Annotated)

by Willa Cather

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O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, composed while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).

O Pioneers! depicts the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies and devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.

This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, characters, plot, narration, impact, biographical and bibliographical information.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150935297
Publisher: Bronson Tweed Publishing
Publication date: 06/28/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 217 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895
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