O Pioneers!
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O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Great Plains trilogy | 1 |
| O Pioneers! (1992 film) | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television film ⓘ |
| author | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| considered | classic of American frontier literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depictsEthnicGroup | Swedish Americans ⓘ |
| depictsSocialGroup | pioneer farmers ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1913 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Song of the Lark ⓘ |
| genre |
American literature
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frontier fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ regionalist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
O Pioneers!
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
O Pioneers! (1992 film)
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| hasFemaleProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | line from Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
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surface form:
American realism
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| literarySignificance | early major work of Willa Cather ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alexandra Bergson
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Carl Linstrum ⓘ Emil Bergson ⓘ Marie Shabata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a strong female landowner
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portrayal of life on the Nebraska prairie ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
O Pioneers!
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surface form:
Great Plains trilogy
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| placeOfFirstPublication |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
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| precededBy | Alexander's Bridge ⓘ |
| protagonist | Alexandra Bergson ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1913 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setInFictionalPlace | Hanover, Nebraska (fictional town) ⓘ |
| settingCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Nebraska prairie ⓘ |
| structure | divided into five parts ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Swedish-American pioneer family
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agricultural settlement of the Great Plains ⓘ |
| theme |
family responsibility
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female independence ⓘ immigration and assimilation ⓘ love and sacrifice ⓘ struggle with the land ⓘ the American frontier ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
O Pioneers! (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Great Plains trilogy