O Pioneers!
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"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger brother Emil is killed by the jealous husband of the French girl Marie Shabata, however, Carl gives up his plans to go to he Klondike, returns to marry Alexandra and take up the life of the farm." Haydn. Thesaurus of Book Dig.
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Cather, W. (2012). O Pioneers! Signet Classic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. 2012. O Pioneers! Signet Classic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, O Pioneers! Signet Classic, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Signet Classic, 2012.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a O Pioneers! / |c Willa Cather ; with a new introduction by Marcelle Clements ; and a new afterword by Lan Samantha Chang. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Signet Classic, |c 2012. | |
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