![]() ![]() Item Weight 9.6 Oz Additional Product Features Target Audience Trade Dewey Decimal 813/. Last words: Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth. O Pioneers Author Willa Cather Format Trade Paperback Language English Topic Classics Publication Year 2017 Genre Fiction Number of Pages 144 Pages Dimensions Item Length 9in. Subject (keywords, tags): Frontier and pioneer life - Nebraska Fiction Nebraska - FictionĬharacters: Alexandra Bergson, Carl Linstrum, Emil Bergson,īook awards: Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (83),Įpigraph: Prairie SpringEvening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent The miles of fresh-plowed soil,Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness The growing wheat, the growing weeds,The toiling horses, the tired men The long empty roads,Sullen fires of sunset, fading,The eternal, unresponsiĭedication: To the memory of Sarah Orne Jewett in whose beautiful and delicate work there is the perfection that endures.įirst words: One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. Willa Cathers 1913 novel, O Pioneers, breathes new life into the American dream narrative using the landscape of the wild Nebraska prairie and a heroic female pioneer to tell a unique American immigrant success story. Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company O Pioneers opens in 1883 and chronicles the story of Alexandra Bergson, the oldest child of a Swedish immigrant, John Bergson. ![]()
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