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O Pioneers!

  • 144 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1913
  • 613 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written 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).

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Good for readers who want: a classic, historical fiction, and a short read.

  • Women immigrants
  • Immigrants
  • Classics
  • Family life
  • Historical fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Women pioneers
  • Farm life

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3 About Willa Cather

1873–1947

Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old.

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