WILLA CATHER

This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a s...

A los diez años Jim Burden pierde a sus padres y deja su Virginia natal para trasladarse a casa de sus abuelos en Nebraska. En el viaje conoce a Ántonia, cuatro años mayor que él, hija de una familia de emigrantes bohemios en busca de la tierra de las oportunidades. Nebraska podía representar aún, a fines del siglo XIX, ese sueño; pero los Burde...

Willa Cather's third novel, "The Song of the Lark," depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea