My ntonia - Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Public domain

Category: Classic

Narrator: George Guidall

Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction

Author: Willa Cather Narrator: George Guidall Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Audio Length: 8.5 hours Release Date: December 2016 Format: Audiobook, Antonia Shimerdas moves to the harsh Nebraska heartland with her impoverished Bohemian family when she is still a girl. For young Jim Burden, who lives with his grandparents on a homestead nearby, Antonia is an embodiment of the female pioneer-self-sufficient, vigorous, and determined to withstand the daily challenges of maintaining home and family in a primitive countryside. When Jim grows up, his memories return to Antonia. In his effort to understand what she meant to him, he creates an enduring picture of the American frontier and of a woman of unusual spirit., The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by one of her friends from childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonias girlh