O Pioneers! (Penguin Classics) - Tapa blanda

A young Norwegian immigrant girl works hard for her young brother and their Nebraska land at the expense of everything else

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913, and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy: The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.