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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.
Kindle Book
- Release date: June 24, 2008
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780553905212
- Release date: June 24, 2008
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780553905212
- File size: 522 KB
- Release date: June 24, 2008
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
Languages
English
Levels
ATOS Level:6.7
Lexile® Measure:930
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-6