Orphaned Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live with his grandparents on the same night as the Shimerdas, a Bohemian family who know no English and have been sold a miserable dugout farm. Years later, as a New York lawyer, Jim writes down his memories of Ántonia Shimerda: prairie winters, the hired girls of Black Hawk, music at the Harlings’ and the hard work of immigrant women.
Cather’s finest prairie novel, published in 1918, and one of the great American books about immigrants and the land. Download the free EPUB.