O Pioneers! e-bok

O Pioneers! from 1913 was written by Willa Cather while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" from Leaves of Grass (1855). The book tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants living near a town (fictional) called Hanover, Nebraska, in in the farm country around the turn of the 20th century. Alexandra Bergson, the main character, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she dedicates her life to making the farm viable at a point in time when many other immigrant families give up and leave the prairie. The novel is also deals with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. The book is divided into five parts, each of which has numerous chapters. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia. She grew up in Virginia and Nebraska. She attended the University of Nebraska, and initially she planned to become a physician. But then she wrote an article for the Nebraska State Journal, after which she became a regular contributor to this journal. As a result of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English. She graduated in 1894. After that, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, after which she moved to New York City for the remainder of her life. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922). She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. She died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 73.