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My Ántonia

by Willa Cather · 1918

A novel of Antonia Shimerda and life on the Nebraska plains, remembered by her childhood friend Jim Burden. The verified cover is the Penguin Classics edition.

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Selected by John O’Farrell for its evocative writing about Nebraska pioneer life.

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