O Pioneers!: With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken
About this ebook
At a time when most immigrant families were giving up, the father of a Swedish-American family passes away, leaving his daughter to look after their farm on the prairie. Determined to help her family prosper, Alexandra makes many sacrifices to enterprise the farm. Set against the beautiful Nebraskan scenery, Willa Cather’s remarkable novel is an elegy for the pioneers that shaped modern-day America.
First published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in the Great Plains trilogy. A fantastic read, not to be missed by those with an interest in life on the American Great Plains. This edition features an excerpt from Willa Cather – Written For The Borzoi (1920) by H. L. Mencken.
About the author
Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer known for her novels centred around the frontier experience. Many of her books explore the life of European immigrants as they settle in the Great Plains in North America, most notably ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913). She has been praised for her novels’ feminist themes and in 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her World War I novel, ‘One of Ours’ (1922).
