My Ántonia

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literary work novel

My Ántonia is a classic 1918 novel by Willa Cather that portrays pioneer life on the Nebraska prairie through the nostalgic recollections of a boy and his deep bond with the spirited immigrant girl Ántonia.

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My Antonia (television adaptation) 1
My Ántonia (1995 film) 1
My Ántonia (stage adaptations) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novel ⓘ
author Willa Cather NERFINISHED ⓘ
character Ambrosch Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Frances Harling NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jake Marpole ⓘ
Lena Lingard ⓘ
Marek Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mr. Harling ⓘ
Mr. Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mrs. Harling ⓘ
Mrs. Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Otto Fuchs ⓘ
Tiny Soderball ⓘ
Wick Cutter ⓘ
Yulka Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
depicts Bohemian immigrants in Nebraska ⓘ
follows The Song of the Lark ⓘ
genre coming-of-age novel ⓘ
immigrant literature ⓘ
pioneer fiction ⓘ
regionalist fiction ⓘ
hasAdaptation My Ántonia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: My Ántonia (1995 film)

My Ántonia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: My Ántonia (stage adaptations)
includedIn Modern Library 100 Best Novels (reader's list) ⓘ
surface form: Modern Library 100 Best Novels list
literaryMovement American realism NERFINISHED ⓘ
literarySignificance considered one of Willa Cather's masterpieces ⓘ
mainCharacter Jim Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ
Antonia ⓘ
surface form: Ántonia Shimerda
narrativePerspective first-person ⓘ
narrator Jim Burden ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOfSeries Prairie Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy O Pioneers! ⓘ
protagonist Jim Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
publicationYear 1918 ⓘ
publisher Houghton Mifflin ⓘ
settingLocation Black Hawk, Nebraska (fictional town) ⓘ
Nebraska prairie NERFINISHED ⓘ
theme friendship ⓘ
immigration ⓘ
memory and nostalgia ⓘ
pioneer life ⓘ
relationship between people and landscape ⓘ
the American frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
the passage of time ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century ⓘ
titleCharacter Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ

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My Ántonia → hasAdaptation → My Ántonia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Ántonia (1995 film)
My Ántonia → hasAdaptation → My Ántonia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Ántonia (stage adaptations)
Victoria Riskin → notableWork → My Ántonia ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Antonia (television adaptation)
Willa Cather → notableWork → My Ántonia ⓘ
The Song of the Lark → partOf → My Ántonia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Willa Cather’s Prairie Trilogy