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Oct 21, 2021 · O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather | Review first published Sept. 14, 1913. The hero of the American novel very often starts on the farm, but he seldom stays there; instead, he uses it as a springboard...
Willa Cather's opening description of Nebraska in O Pioneers! is unlikely to find its way into the Cornhusker State's tourism bureau pamphlets. With a sharp particularity that is present throughout the novel, she describes the fictional town of Hanover as near to being blown away by a howling wind.
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May 23, 2019 · The novel is an extraordinarily beautiful, yet heart-wrenchingly tragic romance of a lone woman and her family as they make their livelihood on the remote Nebraska prairie. Many of the characters are based on Willa Cather’s friends and neighbors from her time growing up in Nebraska.
Sep 6, 2011 · Reviewed by: Robert Lamb. “Whatever Willa Cather was, ‘brilliant writer’ would head the list for most admirers of the literary novel. . . . This handsome edition even comes with bonuses: a very good introduction by Elaine Showalter and a most interesting chronology that reads like a concise history of Willa Cather, America, and America ...
Jan 13, 2023 · O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” from Leaves of Grass (1855).
Nov 4, 2018 · A brief synopsis of O Pioneers by Willa Cather, plus an original 1913 review of O Pioneers!, a novel with three heroines — Alexandra, Marie, and the unforgiving land of the Nebraska prairie.
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Jun 20, 2022 · The complete review's Review: O Pioneers ! begins: "One January day, thirty years ago", and while it is that present that makes the strongest first impression -- the bitter cold, the haphazard settlement -- the mention that this account is retrospective, from three decades on, is also significant.
