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| My Antonia | 
| Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $7.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  261 reviews
Sales Rank: 44496
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 039575514X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
UPC: 046442755146
EAN: 9780395755143
ASIN: 039575514X
Publication Date: September 21, 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: very usable copy with marks
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful new edition September 2, 2008
The edition of this book that has a cover painting of Antonia in a white dress (ISBN 1438242905) has a fresh new design, inside and out. It's also a substantial size (6"x9") and printed on high-quality paper, unlike the small mass-market editions printed on newsprint. A great bargain at this low price!
 Only read it if you have to for school! August 28, 2008
Required reading for my kids their junior year. My kids love to read everything they can get their hands on. This was pure torture! Had to look up summaries online to help get the ideas flowing on what to write about after reading this. Books like this are enough to make kids not want to read any more!
Lovely to revisit this classic on audio April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It has been lovely to revisit this old favorite on audio. Now I remember why I loved this book 20 years ago. The narrator is absolutely perfect. This satisfying audiobook has made the miles fly by during my hour-long commute to work. ahhhh!
Very good audio book February 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listened to the MP3 format of this book and really enjoyed it. I have a fairly long commute to work and have recently been listening to several of the classics in audio book format. This is my first foray into a book by Willa Cather. The reader did a great job of making each character sound different, and his Bohemian accent for Antonia made it much easier to imagine her as a recent immigrant.
The author has a very descriptive style and it made me feel like I was in Nebraska 100 years ago. I felt like I got to know several of the characters and the book did a great job of showing what a great friendship between and man and a woman can be. I recommend this book and audio book highly.
 Not My Favorite; A Bit Disappointing January 9, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I wasn't as engaged in My Antonia as I believe I should have been. I just thought that it was simply boring, uninteresting, and it doesn't really grab you and pull you into the pages, and it's a bit disappointing.
The plotline is about a ten-year-old boy, Jim Burden, who moves to his grandparents' house in (fictional) Black Hawk, Nebraska. Living near there, in a sod house (a house made from the earth) are the Shimerdas, a Bohemian family, with the daughter Antonia.
Jim becomes acquaintances with Antonia, and the entire story is about his life in Black Hawk, Antonia's life as a Hired Girl (someone who works for their family) with Tiny Soderball and Lena Lingard, and Antonia's love life throughout.
Personally, I really didn't like My Antonia. The writing style wasn't up to par, and was a bit scattered. The description of scenery, and the description of characters were good, but overall, I thought that the book was very disappointing.
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