Willa Cather Audio Books

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

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

Orphaned at the age of 10, Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. There he meets antonia Shimerda, the daughter of an immigrant family from Bohemia, who have come to carve out a life for themselves in the harsh and bountiful Nebraskan landscape.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts - that and nothing more.

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.

Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's.

Marian Forrester arrives in Sweet Water as the treasured bride of a retired builder.

O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century.

Think of Willa Cather and think of Nebraska - its Divide, its plains, its colors, and awesome horizon...

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