Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.
At a glance
Through the memories of Jim Burden, the immigrant girl Ántonia Shimerda embodies the…
A man looks back across the years to the wide grass country of his childhood and to the…
What it's about Orphaned Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live with his grandparents at…
Among them is Ántonia, spirited and warm, and the friendship between the two children…
Orphaned Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live with his grandparents at the same time as the Shimerdas, a Bohemian immigrant family struggling to make a farm from raw prairie.