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O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a ...
Learn about the plot, themes, characters, and literary devices of O Pioneers!, the first novel of Cather's prairie trilogy. Find summaries, analysis, quotes, and visualizations of the novel set in 19th-century Nebraska.
O Pioneers!, regional novel by American writer Willa Cather, published in 1913. The work is known for its vivid re-creation of the hardships of prairie life and of the struggle of immigrant pioneer women. The novel was partially based on Cather’s Nebraska childhood, and it reflected the author’s.
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Learn about the plot, characters, and themes of O Pioneers!, a classic American novel by Willa Cather. Find study tools, essay topics, and links to buy the book or other resources.
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it.
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O Pioneers! is a novel by Willa Cather about the pioneer life in Nebraska. The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition provides a critical text, historical essay, explanatory notes, textual commentary, and emendations for the novel.
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