My Antonia _______________ Willa Cather Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, Massachusetts Copyright 1918 by, Willa S. Cather Foreword by: Doris Grumbach 238 pages Front-of-cover design by: Wendell Minor USD $5.95 ISBN: 0-395-08356-7 Hailed as, "One of Americas finest pieces of literature" I would have to agree with that. My Antonia was a colorful book full of exploration, times of life and laughter, and times of heartbreak and sorrow. In My Antonia , Cather recreates experiences and describes things so …showed first 75 words of 2127 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2127 total…Nebraska as a plain old western prairie land. When I think of Nebraska from now on, I will think of Antonia and Jim, the prairie, and the Bohemian, and Norwegian immigrants that made that part of the country colorful. One thing Cather reminded me of in this book is that memories are something solid, something that you can keep forever; Memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.