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Cather’s “most famous and canonized novel… marks conscious experimentation with narratives and with conventional expectations of how novels tell stories” (Showalter et al., Modern American Women Writers, 41). Ántonia, a madonna of the wheat fields, is described as the mother of races” (ANB).

“ My Ántonia (1918), which has become a modern classic, captures poignantly the life of Czech immigrants in Nebraska, most notably the title character, who in real life was Cather’s close friend Anna Pavelka. Octavo, original brown cloth.įirst edition, first state, with eight full-page illustrations by W.T. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. “HER MOST FAMOUS AND CANONIZED NOVEL”: WILLA CATHER’S MY ÁNTONIAĬATHER, Willa.

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