O Pioneers!

Publisher Marketing: O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). O Pioneers! is divided into five parts, each of which has numerous chapters. The book tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies. She devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. About O Pioneers!, Willa Cather said in a 1921 interview, "I decided not to 'write' at all, - simply to give myself up to the pleasure of recapturing in memory people and places I'd forgotten." Mogul Classics is proud to offer you the best Kindle edition of this literary classic featuring one of the most acclaimed books of the 20th century." Review Citations: Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 900 (EAN 9780199552320, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 125 (EAN 9780199552320, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 734 (EAN 9780192832160, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 90 (EAN 9780192832160, Paperback) School Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 74 (EAN 9781629230764, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Cather, Willa One of the great American writers of the twentieth century, Willa Cather is the author of such classics as "O Pioneers!""My Antonia", and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours".