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1) My 'Antonia
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From the Back Cover: When orphaned, ten-year-old Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live on his grandparents' farm, he doesn't know what to expect. The Great Plains are so vast that he feels overwhelmed-marooned-blotted out. And what should he make of his new neighbors, the Shimerdas? They don't speak English, and their ways are foreign to him. Yet their fourteen-year-old daughter, Antonia, is pretty, high-spirited-and eager for Jim to teach her English....
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Renowned author Timothy Schaffert's celebrated debut novel, reissued here in an entirely new paperback edition, chronicles two sisters on the cusp of womanhood as they struggle to understand their father's suicide as well their mother's abandonment of them many years earlier. On graduating from high school, the sisters are once again set adrift, this time by their grandmother who leaves them for Florida. In order to survive, and perhaps even thrive,
...3) My Ántonia
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"Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of...
4) Dalva
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At the age of 45, Dalva leaves her home on the California coast in search of the life she left on the Nebraska prairie, the son she gave up for adoption, and the half-Sioux lover of her youth.
6) Dalva
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Dalva a Plains Indian returns to her home on the plains of Nebraska, accompanied by her boyfriend, Michael, a historian. Through her great grandfather's journals, which span the years of the civil war to Wounded Knee in 1890, she searches for the son given up for adoption when she was a teenager, while delving into the secrets in the journal.
7) Mi Ántonia
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Alba minus volume 23
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« Mi Ántonia» (1918) es una visión tan fidedigna como generosa de la América de los pioneros. Basada en recuerdos personales de la autora, es además una gran novela sobre la memoria y sus procesos, recreados y estilizados con la magistral técnica y sensibilidad de Willa Cather.--casadellibro.com
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