O pioneers!
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
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Book
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199 pages
Language
English
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UG
Level 6.7, 9 Points

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Originally published in 1913.
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O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontierand the transformation of the people who settled it. 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Cather, W. (1989). O pioneers! . Bantam.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. 1989. O Pioneers!. Bantam.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. O Pioneers! Bantam, 1989.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Bantam, 1989.

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