O Pioneers!
O Pioneers!
By: Willa Sibert Cather
This is the Large Print Book Company's second edition of this title, revised format for improved legibility. First published in 1913, O Pioneers! is one of Willa Cather’s three novels known collectively as The Great Plains Trilogy, including Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918), also available from The Large Print Book Company. These books celebrate the author’s homeland and its development by the perseverance of humble European immigrants. In this beautiful story of the power of resilience, love, and devotion, Alexandra Bergson is the Swedish-American heroine who inherits her father’s farm and becomes a source of sustenance for the people in the burgeoning town of Hanover, Nebraska.
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Willa Sibert Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947) was born in Virginia and moved to Nebraska when she was nine years old. She graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her writing style is characterized by its vivid descriptions of the natural world, its focus on the lives of ordinary people, and its exploration of themes such as identity, memory, and the passage of time. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours.
