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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Unknown: Westvaco Corporation, 2000. Limited Edition Privately Publis. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition Privately Published. Bound in hunter green cloth with gilt text on the spine. O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were. 253pp. Slipcase is designed to graphically represent Celtic culture represented in Willa Cather's text.<br><br>CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are tight. Slipcase has light shelf wear and two small blemishes on the foredge. Full refund if not satisfied.
Synopsis
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClung and was completed at the McClungs' home in Pittsburgh.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 073717
- Title
- O Pioneers!
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition Privately Publis
- Publisher
- Westvaco Corporation
- Place of Publication
- Unknown
- Date Published
- 2000
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- O Pioneers, Willa Cather, Literature
Terms of Sale
Shelley and Son Books
I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Shelley and Son Books
Biblio member since 2005
Hendersonville, North Carolina
About Shelley and Son Books
We specialize in books by and about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and their Friends.
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Crisp
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- Shelf Wear
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