# My Ántonia

by [Willa Cather](https://localbooks.app/authors/willa-cather)

- Genres: [Frontier & Pioneer](https://localbooks.app/genres/westerns/frontier-and-pioneer), [Coming of Age](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/coming-of-age)
- Set in: [Black Hawk, Nebraska, United States](https://localbooks.app/places/us/nebraska/black-hawk) (fictional); [Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States](https://localbooks.app/places/us/nebraska/red-cloud)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1918
- Pages: 264

## Description

Jim Burden, an orphan sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, grows up alongside Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling through their first hard winters. Years later he tries to put into words what she meant to him.

## Where to buy

- [Open Library (ebook)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12791W)
- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=My%20%C3%81ntonia)

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