Willa Cather Audio

Against a backdrop of delicate imagery, Willa Cather explores the tough inner terrain of a man in mid-life crisis.

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis.

This anthology of complete short fiction represents some of the most significant and enjoyable...

The Shimerda family come to Nebraska from Bohemia - but they find the promised land of opportunity a harsh and unforgiving reality.

My Antonia is the story of Antonia Shimerda who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part...

Cather paints a rich picture of life on the prairie at the beginning of the twentieth century and depicts some of the many cultures that came to comprise the United States.

My Ántonia portrays the life of Bohemian immigrants and American settlers in the frontier farmlands of Nebraska.

My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia.

The central characters in this story are the Bergsons, strong-willed Swedish immigrants who came to America to make a living on the great prairie.

Life was hard on the Nebraska prairie, but for Alexandra Bergson, daughter of a Swedish immigrant...