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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).
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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Nov 5, 2007 · It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). 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.
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O Pioneers!, published in 1913, is a novel by Willa Cather that tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants, as they struggle to make a life for themselves on the Nebraska prairie. The novel is divided into five parts, each of which corresponds to a different period in the life of the novel’s protagonist, Alexandra Bergson.
O Pioneers! PART I The Wild Land I. ONE January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky.
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Full Book Summary. Previous Next. O Pioneers! opens on a blustery winter day, in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, sometime between 1883 and 1890. The narrator introduces four principal characters: the very young Emil Bergson; his stalwart older sister, Alexandra; her gloomy friend Carl Linstrum; and a pretty little Bohemian child, Marie Shabata.
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