My Ántonia

How it opens

Last summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden—Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I are old friends—we grew up together in the same Nebraska town—and we had much to say to each other. While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flow…

Details

• AuthorWilla Cather
• SourceProject Gutenberg #242
• Length81,102 words · 5h 24m of reading
• Chapters26
• DictionaryNot yet generated
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

26 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

1. 01TO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER
2. 02INTRODUCTION
3. 03INTRODUCTION
4. 04BOOK I. The Shimerdas
5. 05Grandmother looked interested. ‘Now, why is that, Otto?’
6. 06XVI
7. 07XVII
8. 08XVIII
9. 09XIX
10. 10BOOK II. The Hired Girls
11. 11VI
12. 12VII
13. 13VIII
14. 14IX
15. 15XI
16. 16XII
17. 17XIII
18. 18XIV
19. 19XV
20. 20BOOK III. Lena Lingard
21. 21She shook her head. ‘Not me.’
22. 22BOOK IV. The Pioneer Woman’s Story
23. 23IV
24. 24BOOK V. Cuzak’s Boys
25. 25II
26. 26III

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