by Willa Cather · Mariner Books Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780395083659
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«O Pioneers!» is the classic novel by Willa Cather, published by Mariner Books Classics in paperback (180 pages, in English).
The novel follows Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrants, who inherits the family farm in rural Nebraska and turns it into a prosperous enterprise. Her determination clashes with the prejudices of a male-dominated society; a story of perseverance, love, sacrifice, and connection to the land in pioneer America at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Edition with an introduction by Doris Grumbach; first installment of the Great Plains trilogy. Work originally published in 1913.
For readers of American classics and frontier historical fiction, including book clubs.
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
