03905cam a2200529 4500 761736270 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 080727s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553905212 electronic bk. : Adobe Reader 055390521X electronic bk. : Adobe Reader B001BANK1O Amazon c21239d4-17dd-4206-98c4-05ef3b37cfef OverDrive (Reserve ID) 148150 OverDrive (Product ID) 25305 25305 25305 (OCoLC)236137211 TEFOD TEFOD TEFOD TXN TxAuBib Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. O pioneers [Libby] / Willa Cather ; with an introduction by Vivian Gornick. New York : Bantam Books, 2008. Bantam classic Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 510kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Title from eBook information screen. Originally published by Bantam in 1989. One of America's greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel -- the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America's Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them. Cather's novel is a uniquely American epic. Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather's great heroines -- all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather's books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: "The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us." Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 788 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 422 KB). Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Young women Nebraska 19th century Fiction. Immigrants Nebraska 19th century Fiction. Nebraska 19th century Fiction. Electronic books. Frontier and pioneer life Nebraska 19th century Fiction. Bantam classic. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C21239D4-17DD-4206-98C4-05EF3B37CFEF https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C21/239/D4/OPioneers9780553905212.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C21239D4-17DD-4206-98C4-05EF3B37CFEF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C21/239/D4/OPioneers9780553905212.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C21239D4-17DD-4206-98C4-05EF3B37CFEF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C21/239/D4/OPioneers9780553905212.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C21239D4-17DD-4206-98C4-05EF3B37CFEF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8