Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[1] – April 24, 1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the state university; she lived in New York for most of her adult life and writing career. Education (See Willa Cather

My Antonia Willa Carter This novel is entitled My Antonia. It was written by Willa Carter (1873-1947). She wrote a number of novels including O Pioneers! (1947), One of Ours (1922) …etc She became famous through the sucess of the noves especially One of Ours, which won her a Pultizer Prize; and at the age of 9, she moved to Nebraska prairie. The novel was published in

Commentary of the Introduction of My Antonia. Willa Cather was born in 1873. She came to Red Cloud, Nebraska, when she was 9 years old and spent her childhood there. Then, she moved on New-York to continue her career : she wanted to be a writer. She decided to write about her childhood in the West. The novel she wrote with this idea is My Antonia. My Antonia is a five-book novel published is 1918. The extract under study is the introduction of novel. To begin, I will do a summary of the introduction

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pale-yellow cornfields, looking for the damp spots one sometimes found at their edges, where the smartweed soon turned a rich copper colour and the narrow brown leaves hung curled like cocoons about the swollen joints of the stem. Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbours and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches. Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard

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Willa Cather’s biography. Willa Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, December 7, 1873. She is noted as one of America’s finest novelists of the early 20th Century. Willa Cather died April 24, 1947. Willa was the first child of Charles and Mary Cather. Willa had two brothers and a sister. Willa’s father was a deputy Sheriff in Virginia. At the age of nine, Cather’s family moved to Nebraska. Willa enjoyed horseback riding and seemed to be quite the tomboy. During her life, she

General introduction Well, I'm going to tell you a few words about the novelist Willa Cather, she was born in a village of Virginia in the USA. At the age of ten her father decided to move into the state of Nebraska, where Willa met many immigrants families who will be her inspiration for the writing of the novel untitled My Antonia published in 1918, this work looks like Willa's life it takes place in the USA, we can find common points between this novel and the reality of Willa's childhood.

Mon Ántonia (My Ántonia) est un roman américain de Willa Cather paru en 1918. C'est un récit retrospectif narré par le personnage principal. Il y conte l'arrivée d'un petit garçon, Jim Burden, venant de Virginie, dans les terres du Nebraska et ses plaines à l'infini. Il y fait la rencontre de la petite fille d'une famille immigrée Tchèque, les Shimerdas, et qui se prénomme Ántonia. S'ensuivra ensuite l'histoire de ces deux enfants unis par les mêmes valeurs, mais qui vécurent deux destins divergents

Like Jim Burden, her narrator,in My Antonia, Willa Cather was moved from a childhood home in Virginia to a house near Red Cloud, Nebraska. She says in an interview in 1913, »I would not know how much a child’s life is bound up in the woods and hills and meadows around it,if I had not been jerked away from all these and thrown out into a country as bare as a piece of sheet iron. » Jim,looking out of the wagon on his first journey cannot pray because of the emptiness : »There was nothing but land :