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	My Antonia
		I did not believe that my dead father and mother were watching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheep-fold down by the creek, or along the white road that led to the mountain pastures.
		My plan must have seemed very foolish to her, but she was often large-minded about humoring the desires of other people.
		I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
	www.unl.edu /Cather/works/se/antonia/entire/antoniatext.htm (22534 words)

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		My papa play for his wedding, and he give my papa fine gun, and my papa give you.' I was glad that this project was one of futurity.
		Antonia, barefooted as she was, ran up behind me. Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself.
		Antonia explained that her father meant to build a new house for them in the spring; he and Ambrosch had already split the logs for it, but the logs were all buried in the snow, along the creek where they had been felled.
	eserver.org /fiction/my-antonia.txt (25744 words)

	87.02.01: Willa Cather’s My Antonia: “the Happiness and the Curse”
		My Antonia is an ideal book to introduce to high school students because it deals with the great variety of people from other countries who were confronted simultaneously with the creation of new lives and a new country.
		Antonia’s father and the two Russians could not grapple with the challenge of America, thus they became victims and were defeated by the hardships of the immigrant’s life.
		Antonia may have given up something for her marriage but from another point of view, she has gained much—a loving husband, eleven children and the pride of accomplishment.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1987/2/87.02.01.x.html (6170 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Why I befriended my dad's killer
		My sister Antonia woke me early the next morning, saying she had heard on the TV a bomb had gone off at the Grand Hotel.
		I was moving my arm up and down, saying the words over and over again: "Dad's dead," to try to totally feel it and know it.
		My seven-year-old daughter got me to ask him why he killed her grandad, and he was shaken.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1324042,00.html (1367 words)

	Study Guide for My Antonia
		My first reason for including this work in the program for the seminar is my unabashed admiration for the women in Cather's Nebraska novels—both Alexandra and Antonia, markedly different heroines, but both wonderfully appealing to me and, I gather, to countless other readers.
		On my last walk about Red Cloud I had a digital camera in my pocket, so in seminar I'll be showing a few slides of the town.
		Antonia is the one text of our four that has been the subject of considerable literary criticism.
	www.plainsfolk.com /seminar/guide2.htm (838 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Perhaps the most popular of Cather's novels, My Ántonia is at once the intimate portrait of an American heroine, an elegy for a vanished frontier, and the story of an unconsummated love affair.
		The first narrator in My Ántonia is an unnamed speaker who grew up with Jim Burden and meets him years later on a train.
		Although My Ántonia is elegiac in its tone--and has been used in high school curricula to convey a conservative view of the American past--it is also notable for its striking realism about gender and culture.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/my_antonia.asp (1223 words)

	THE READERS' THREAD PAGES
		On my first reading I presummed they were simply descriptions given to allow the reader suffient knowledge to allow the story to continue with a flow.
		I look forward to my reading time every day, but I can see that this book is going to make me want to move it to earlier in the day.
		My main focus when reading the book was looking at all the changes and "growing up" that took place.
	www.americanliterature.com /MATHREAD.HTML (1003 words)

	CPL - My Antonia
		Here he discovers a prevailing attitude about immigrants, "All foreigners were ignorant people who couldn't speak English." Instead of seeing the immigrant "hired girls" as inferior, Jim sees them as far superior to the other young people of Black Hawk.
		My Ántonia gives readers the opportunity to reflect on values that cannot be easily measured, yet are essential to a life well lived.
		My Ántonia contrasts characters who stay rooted to the land and those who emigrate or travel.
	www.chipublib.org /003cpl/oboc/myantonia/discquest.html (553 words)

	My Antonia -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Months afterward Jim Burden arrived at my apartment one stormy winter afternoon, with a bulging legal portfolio sheltered under his fur overcoat.
		It hasn't any title, either." He went into the next room, sat down at my desk and wrote on the pinkish face of the portfolio the word, "Ántonia." He frowned at this a moment, then prefixed another word, making it "My Ántonia." That seemed to satisfy him.
		My own story was never written, but the following narrative is Jim's manuscript, substantially as he brought it to me.
	www.litrix.com /antonia/anton001.htm (1299 words)

	Reader's Guide for My Antonia published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		The narrator of the prologue in My Ántonia is an unnamed speaker who knew Jim Burden in youth and meets him years later on a train.
		The main narrator of My Ántonia is Jim Burden, Ántonia's childhood friend, who reminisces from the vantage point of adulthood about their childhood together.
		The epigraph for My Ántonia is a quote from Virgil: Optima dies.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/cather.shtml (1086 words)

	87.02.01: Willa Cather’s My Antonia: “the Happiness and the Curse”
		Symbols, sense, imagery, color, and figures of speech are particularly rich and poetic in My Antonia.
		It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight.
		Antonia says that her father “don’t like this kawn-tree.”
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1987/2/87.02.01.x.html (6170 words)

	Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess
		Cather once said that during the trip from her birthplace in Virginia, she imagined that, "I had left even their spirits [her grandparents] behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
		Cather understood the coming change between cultures; she saw the immigrant children, like Ántonia, moving away from the culture of their parents and into a kind of uneasy Americanism.
		Only one features, instead of an element of the story, the author's face, as though that were the most important feature (some might argue it is-- but what does this featuring imply?) None feature the narrator, Jim's, face, despite his dominance in the story.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/cather1.htm (599 words)

	My Antonia
		Living as we do in a rapidly changing world, in which prairies and pioneers have all but disappeared, Cather's story, nearly a century old, possesses a chilling relevance: Are we forever doomed to pine for that which we once had, but lost?
		Like her hero, Jim Burden, she moved from her family's Virginia home to a Nebraska farm in 1883 at the age of ten.
		I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be." What is the mood of this passage - desolation, resignation, or both?
	www.teachervision.com /lesson-plans/lesson-4436.html (1739 words)

	Willa Cather - Free Online Library
		Other well-known Cather novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and The Professor's House.
		He finds his old flame, an Irish actress, and begins an affair that threatens to bring his entire world down.
		Follows Antonia Shimerda during the great migration west.
	cather.thefreelibrary.com (460 words)

	My Antonia by Willa Cather
		my pocket and tried to wipe my face with it, but I snatched it away from her.
		Antonia took my hand under the table and held it tight.
		and my eyes were blinded by the wind a good deal of the time.
	emotional-literacy-education.com /classic-books-online-c/myant10.htm (16645 words)

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		You never really knew a man, he said, unt
	jollyroger.com /library/MyAntoniabyWillaCatherebook.html (24434 words)

	Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Many of her books drew on her memories and knowledge of Nebraska.
		(1913), My Antonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923) offer fascinating explorations of the experience of pioneers of the Plains.
		Other well regarded works include The Professor's House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart (1935), and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940).
	www.uic.edu /depts/quic/history/willa_cather.html (421 words)

	CliffsNotes::My Antonia:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Create a set of letters that Jim and his grandmother might have exchanged during the years he was in the East going to school.
		Read Cather’s short story about another immigrant family, “Neighbor Rosicky,” and compare and contrast it with My Ántonia.
		Enter characters names, themes, or anything between the covers.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-82,pageNum-68.html (238 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Willa ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Cather, another Virginian, grew up on the Nebraska prairie among pioneering immigrants -- later immortalized in O Pioneers!
		(1913), My Antonia (1918), and her well-known story "Neighbour Rosicky" (1928).
		During her lifetime she became increasingly alienated from the materialism of modern life and wrote of alternative visions in the American Southwest and in the past.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/cather.htm (140 words)

	Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Educational Foundation
		ONE BOOK ONE STATE NEBRASKA READS MY ANTONIA
		Be part of the this project initiated by the Cather Foundation
		Go to One Book My Ántonia for more information.
	www.willacather.org (342 words)

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