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Tag: Willa Cather

My Antonia, Willa Cather (1918)

On October 28, 2022December 13, 2025 By LaurieIn American LiteratureLeave a comment

More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood. To speak her name was to call up pictures of people and places, to set a quiet drama going in one’s brain.  Willa Cather is an incredible nature writer. She loses …

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O Pioneers!, Willa Cather (1913)

On August 13, 2019December 13, 2025 By LaurieIn American LiteratureLeave a comment

The land belongs to the future….We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it⁠—for a little while. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Scandinavian, Bohemian and French immigrants who settled in the Nebraska prairies during the turn of …

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