Plus, as always, we’re recommending six contemporary books to pair with our classic, including a Western, an arctic memoir, and a nonfiction book about grief. Like one of those dreary, early Canadian novels some of us had to read in school about settlers in rural North America.
There’s plenty to discuss in this wintry classic, including stunning imagery, surprising connections to an American Girl Doll, and where Cather’s novel fits into the American literary canon. My ntonia teems with romance, violence, tenderness, cruelty, comedy, and tragedyall bustling side by side in a narrative at once compassionate and gripping. Throughout the first book of My Antonia, it is the world of nature rather than the human world which dominates, and even the human be- ings tend to identify themselves with the things of the land. Enjoy todays list and let me know in the. Today Chelsey and Sara are discussing My Antonia by Willa Cather with a special guest: Michelle Timmins, English literature student and Novel Pairings assistant extraordinaire. Few books pack so much vibrantly genuine life into their pages as this classic novel of the American immigrant experience. With these, Im just a hopeful reader, excited about the books on her stack, hoping to find something great.
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