My Antonia

Written by:
Willa Cather
Narrated by:
Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
2
Release Date
July 2008
Duration
8 hours 0 minutes
Summary
After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance, on that same train is Ántonia, a bright-eyed girl who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work hard just to survive. Through it all, Ántonia retains her natural pride and free spirit.

Jim's grandparents have a large and tidy farm. They are kind to him, but conventional. Later, Jim becomes a scholar and Ántonia becomes a 'hired girl' in town. She blossoms in the new freedom that town life offers. Jim can only taste this life vicariously through her recounting of town gossip and of the 'dance tent.' Ántonia's strong will, spirit, and honesty allow her to thrive in the midst of hardship.

In My Ántonia, Willa Cather paints a rich picture of life on the prairie at the beginning of the twentieth century and depicts some of the many cultures that came to compose the United States.
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Annette T.

I adored the reading of this precious classic. The book, by Willa Cather, well deserves its reputation as an exquisite record of an era and the personalities that made those times and places worthy of remembering. The reader did a splendid job of capturing the nuances of the narrator and those who filled his world. Though I love to read, I don't think reading would have been nearly as wonderful as listening to this rendition of My Ántonia.

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