O Pioneers!
&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 22.5pt"&&R&&LI&&RO Pioneers!&&L/I&&R, by &&LSTRONG&&RWilla Cather&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&L/P&&R
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I had a hard time getting into this novel until about the halfway point, but fortunately it's a short book. The writing is beautiful and the character of Alexandra is inspiring. I'm not sure how I made it through high school and college without reading a Willa Cather book, but I'm glad I can finally mark that off my list.
Having tried and failed to read My Antonia a couple of times, I didn’t expect to like this book a lot. So I was shocked when I started to love it. Cather's prose is tight, and her characters are gracefully drawn. Even an eccentric like Ivar doesn’t get the Faulkner treatment; these people appear in strokes, gradually, and they are all the more real for it. I was enraptured by this book, almost all the way to the end. [It does really start to unravel in the final exchange between Alexandra and Carl—I don’t know what that was in the service of, exactly.]
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Having re-read it, I was more bothered this time by the way Cather pretends the land was uninhabited before these European pioneers arrived. Several times she speaks of the land as though they were the first human beings to tread upon it.
In the end, I was still captivated by the story and characters, but I do have to dock it a star for the historical erasure that underlies so much of the book’s philosophical musing. It made it more difficult & less comfortable to read, certainly.
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Having re-read it, I was more bothered this time by the way Cather pretends the land was uninhabited before these European pioneers arrived. Several times she speaks of the land as though they were the first human beings to tread upon it.
In the end, I was still captivated by the story and characters, but I do have to dock it a star for the historical erasure that underlies so much of the book’s philosophical musing. It made it more difficult & less comfortable to read, certainly.
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