My ntonia - Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Public domain

Category: Classic

Narrator: David Colacci

Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults

Prairie Trilogy, Book 3 (1918) Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins Release date: 02-27-18 Publisher: Brilliance Audio, Widely recognized as Willa Cathers finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska., When high-powered New York attorney Jim Burden recollects his childhood on the Nebraska prairie, ntonia Shimerda is at the heart of every memory., Orphaned at age ten, Jim is traveling west to his grandparents home in Black Hawk when he first meets ntonia, the daughter of a Bohemian family who settles on a neighboring farm. Through sun baked summers and frigid winters, ntonia bears the hardships of a young immigrant as she longs for a vanishing past. It is a profound nostalgia for a lost time that Jim now also holds dear as he recalls all that he left behind and that which hell never lose., Through Jim Burdens endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebras