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My antonia [electronic resource]. Willa Cather.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400128457 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Old Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. |
| Summary, etc.: | After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance, on that same train is Ántonia, a bright-eyed girl who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work hard just to survive. Through it all, Ántonia retains her natural pride and free spirit. Jim's grandparents have a large and tidy farm. They are kind to him, but conventional. Later, Jim becomes a scholar and Ántonia becomes a "hired girl" in town. She blossoms in the new freedom that town life offers. Jim can only taste this life vicariously through her recounting of town gossip and of the "dance tent." Ántonia's strong will, spirit, and honesty allow her to thrive in the midst of hardship. In My Ántonia, Willa Cather paints a rich picture of life on the prairie at the beginning of the twentieth century and depicts some of the many cultures that came to compose the United States. |
| Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 6 - Text Difficulty 8 1010 Lexile. |
| System Details Note: | Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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| Subject: | Fiction. Classic Literature. Literature. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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