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O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father’s farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father’s patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business.

A gripping saga of love, murder, greed, failure, and triumph, O Pioneers! vividly portrays the hardships of prairie life. Above all, it champions the belief that hard work is the surest road to personal fulfillment. Described upon publication in The New York Times as “American in the best sense of the word,” O Pioneers! celebrates the men and women who struggled to build a nation that is both compelling and contradictory.

Chris Kraus is the author of Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, and the forthcoming novel, Torpor. She is co-editor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotexte Reader, and edits Semiotexte Native Agents, a series of mostly female underground fiction.

Auteur

  • Willa Cather (auteur)

    Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.Other Books of Willa Cather:•Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)•Pioneers! (1913)•My Ántonia (1918)•One of Ours (1923)•Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)•The Song of the Lark (1915)•The Professor's House (1925)•The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (1905)•Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)•Not Under Forty (1936)

  • Chris Kraus (Introduction de, Introduction et notes de)

    Chris Kraus est né en 1963 à Göttingen, en Allemagne, et vit à Berlin. Réalisateur, scénariste, écrivain, il a notamment étudié à l'Académie allemande du film et de la télévision de Berlin. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs films qui lui ont valu de nombreux prix. Son œuvre Quatre minutes (2006) a obtenu un grand succès critique et commercial en France, et a été adaptée au théâtre. Il a également réalisé un documentaire sur l'écrivain et réalisateur Rosa von Praunheim, Rosakinder (2012), et un film, Die Blumen von Gestern (2016), avec Adèle Haenel dans le rôle principal.
    Chris Kraus est l'auteur de quatre romans.
    Après La Fabrique des salauds (Belfond, 2019 ; 10/18, 2020), finaliste du prix Femina et du prix du Meilleur livre étranger, Baiser ou faire des films est son deuxième roman à paraître en France.


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Auteur(s) : Willa Cather

Caractéristiques

Auteur(s) : Willa Cather

Publication : 1 juin 2009

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 358 ko (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411432826

EAN13 (papier) : 9781593082055

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