Willa Cather

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The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman

One of America's greatest writers, Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel--the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America's Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather's novel is a uniquely American epic.

Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather's great heroines--all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather's books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: "The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us."

Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage.

O Pioneers!

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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1815 edition. Extrait: ...que cette langue a eue dans l'Inde et ses rapports d'origine avec celles du pays, onl produit une langue nouvelle, qui est une combinaison de morisque et d'hindou: on l'appelle hindostani. Elle est tres-riche, tres-harmonieuse, mais peu reguliere et pas encore fixee dans ses principes. On la parle generalement dans l'Hindoustan depuis Lahor jusqu'a l'orient de Delhi. Lekaptchak ou ubgai, qui etait le vrai tartare usite dans les etats de Tamerlan, a beaucoup d'analogie avec le persan ancien. Il se parle encore assez purement chez les Tartares'du Wolga et de la Crimee. Les autres idiomes de laTartarie sont mele de kalmoucL, de russe, et meme d'arabe. LesTurcomaus parlent un dialecte du turc; les Usbeks'un dialecte du pessau. Nous devons faire observer que lemautchou moderne se classe dans la famille des langues tartares, puisqu'il a les memes principes, quoique ses racines soient eu partie differentes. Ce rapprochement entre deux langues qui se parlent aux deux extremites de l'Asie est le resultat des rapports qui ont subsiste entre les peuples orientaux et occidentaux par les conquetes des Kalmoucks ou Mogols, et desTartares (i). Peuples metis ou Mongols caucasiens. Les peuples, en se dispersant, s'etendent en proportion des facilites que le pays leur offre. Dans sa partie occidentale, l'ancien continent etanLpartage en deux par le grand massif central, les Scythes ou peuples mongols ne purent penetrer dans la partie meridionale, qui fut occupee, comme nous le verrons, par la race caucasique. Mais ces memes peuples, ..

Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.

At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.

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