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My Antonia is the final and most acclaimed book of the Prairie Trilogy. It is preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.
My Antonia = pioneer life on the Nebraska prairie is presented in what is generally considered Willa Cather's greatest novel (1918)
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- He frowned at this a moment, then prefixed another word, making it "My Antonia."† (source)
- My Antonia, that had so much good in her, had come home disgraced.† (source)
- Whenever I saw her come up the furrow, shouting to her beasts, sunburned, sweaty, her dress open at the neck, and her throat and chest dust-plastered, I used to think of the tone in which poor Mr. Shimerda, who could say so little, yet managed to say so much when he exclaimed, 'My Antonia!'† (source)
- My Antonia -- Willa Cather INTRODUCTION LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden--Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West.† (source)
- 'Yulka,' he said in a low, despairing voice, 'Yulka; my Antonia!'† (source)
- Her warm, sweet face, her kind arms, and the true heart in her; she was, oh, she was still my Antonia!† (source)
- He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, 'Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia!'† (source)
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