O Pioneers!: Introduction by Elaine Showalter

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

No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine of O Pioneers!, Alexandra Bergson, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's windblasted land and, through years of hard work, turns it into a prosperous farm. Fiercely independent, Alexandra sacrifices love and companionship in her passionate devotion to the land, until tragedy strikes and brings with it the chance for a new life.

One of our most beloved classics, one of the great heroines of American literature.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 09/06/2011
ISBN: 9780307700919
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.31w x 0.69d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 8664 / O Pioneers!
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9