Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:O Pioneers! (1913) By: Willa Cather ( December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947): O Pioneers! Is A 1913 Novel By American Author Willa Cather, WritteISBN13:9781985044654ISBN10:198504465XAuthor:Cather, Willa (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - 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 Ntonia (1918) Part I - The Wild Land On A Windy January Day In Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson Is With Her Five-Year-Old Brother Emil, Whose Little Kitten Has Climbed A Telegraph Pole And Is Afraid To Come Down Alexandra Asks Her Neighbor And Friend Carl Linstrum To Retrieve The Kitten Later, Alexandra Finds Emil In The General Store With Marie Tovesky They Are Playing With The Kitten Marie Lives In Omaha And Is Visiting Her Uncle Joe Tovesky Alexandra's Father Is Dying, And It Is His Wish That She Run The Farm After He Is Gone Alexandra And Her Brothers Oscar And Lou Later Visit Ivar, Known As Crazy Ivar Because Of His Unorthodox Views For Instance, He Sleeps In A Hammock, Believes In Killing No Living Thing And Goes Barefoot Summer And Winter But He Is Known For Healing Sick Animals Alexandra Is Concerned About Their Hogs As The Hogs Of Many Of Their Neighbors Are Dying Crazy Ivar Advises Her To Keep Their Hogs Clean Rather Than Letting Them Live In Filth And To Give Them Fresh, Clean Water And Good Food This Simply Confirms Oscar's And Lou's Opinion That Ivar Deserves The Name Crazy Ivar Alexandra, However, Starts Making Plans For Where She Will Relocate The Hogs After Years Of Crop Failure, Many Of The Bergson's Neighbors Are Selling Out, Even If It Means Taking A Loss Then They Learn The Linstrums Have Also Decided To Leave Oscar And Lou Want To Leave Too, But Neither Their Mother Nor Alexandra Will After Visiting Villages Downwards To See How They Are Getting On, Alexandra Talks Her Brothers Into Mortgaging The Farm To Buy More Land, In Hopes Of Ending Up As Rich Landowners Willa Sibert Cather ( December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) Was An American Writer Who Achieved Recognition For Her Novels Of Frontier Life On The Great Plains, Including O Pioneers (1913), The Song Of The Lark (1915), And My Ntonia (1918) In 1923 She Was Awarded The Pulitzer Prize For One Of Ours (1922), A Novel Set During World War I Cather Grew Up In Virginia And Nebraska, And Graduated From The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln She Lived And Worked In Pittsburgh For Ten Years, Supporting Herself As A Magazine Editor And High School English Teacher At The Age Of 33 She Moved To New York City, Her Primary Home For The Rest Of Her Life, Though She Also Traveled Widely And Spent Considerable Time At Her Summer Residence On Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick Early Life And Education: Cather Was Born Wilella Sibert Cather In 1873 On Her Maternal Grandmother's Farm In The Back Creek Valley Near Winchester, Virginia Her Father Was Charles Fectigue Cather (D 1928), Whose Family Had Lived On Land In The Valley For Six Generations Cather's Family Originated In Wales, The Family Name Deriving From Cadair Idris, A Mountain In Gwynedd Her Mother Was Mary Virginia Boak (Died 1931), A Former School Teacher Within A Year Of Cather's Birth, The Family Moved To Willow Shade, A Greek Revival-Style Home On 130 Acres Given To Them By Her Paternal Grandparents At The Urging Of Charles Cathers' Parents, The Family Moved To Nebraska In 1883 When Willa Was Nine Years Old The Rich, Flat Farmland Appealed To Charles' Father, And The Family Wished To Escape The Tuberculosis Outbreaks That Were Rampant In Virginia Willa's Father Tried His Hand At Farming For Eighteen Months; Then He Moved The Family Into The Town Of Red Cloud, Where He Opened A Real Estate And Insurance Business, And The Children Attended School For The First Time Some Of The Earliest Work Produced By Cather Was First Published In The Red Cloud Chief, The City's Local Paper Cather's Time In The Western State, Still On The Frontier, Was A Deeply Formative Experience For Her Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2018-02-04Weight:0.47 lbsDimensions:0.21'' H x 10'' L x 8'' WNumber of Pages:100Language:English
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Book Title: O Pioneers! (1913). by: Willa Cather ( December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) : 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 Ántonia (1918).
Number of Pages: 100 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Author: Willa Cather
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
