O Pioneers! Illustrated

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"Gathered together in this unique collection are the novel O Pioneers! - Cather's famous double elegy to the land and to the pioneer spirit - and two of her greatest shorter works, "A Lost Lady and "The Bohemian Girl." With O Pioneers!, Cather created something bracing and new in American literature, a boldly imaginative and compassionate tribute to the men and women who struggled to make a life on the forbidding, open contours of the Western prairies. And in her radiant heroine Alexandra Bergson she brought to life a resolute and passionate woman who has become one of our most beloved literary figures. In this volume, Alexandra is joined by two other remarkable women: the vivacious, restive Clara Vavricka Ericson of the short story "The Bohemian Girl," and the enchanting but curiously baffling Marian Forrester of A Lost Lady, a luminous novella that for many critics and readers stands as the most exquisite example of Cather's art."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Fiction,  Brothers and sisters,  Women farmers,  Women immigrants,  Women pioneers,  Farm life,  Swedish Americans,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, sagas,  England, fiction,  Married people, fiction,  Social life and customs,  Frontier and pioneer life,  American Historical fiction,  American fiction

Places: Nebraska