Alexandra came from a hardy pioneer clan. Over the protests of her traditionally minded brothers, their dying father wills her, not them, the family homestead. With an iron will, she resolves to wrest a prosperous enterprise from the unforgiving Nebraska soil. With her bold spirit and intelligence, she must survive tragedy and hardship to keep her family together and tame the wild land that she loves.
year: 1990, 2004, 1989, 2003, 1993, 1999, 1997, 1992, 1941, 2011, 1913, 1988, 1995, 2013
call number/section: 1000, 1880, 813.52
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, nebraska, fiction, nebraska, fiction, swedish americans, brothers and sisters, women immigrants, women farmers, women pioneers, historical fiction, western stories, fiction, fiction, farm life, siblings, domestic fiction, domestic fiction
Editions
Cather, Willa
Reader's Digest Association (1990)
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Cather, Willa
Signet Classic (2004)
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Cather, Willa
Signet Classic (1989)
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Cather, Willa
Barnes & Noble Classics (2003)
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Cather, Willa
Dover Publications (1993)
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Schools: 1
Cather, Willa
Oxford University Press (1999)
An annotated edition of American author Willa Cather's 1913 novel about an independent young woman whose passion for the Nebraska prairie leads to her becoming a wealthy landowner.
Schools: 1
Cather, Willa
University of Nebraska Press (1997)
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Cather, Willa
A Tom Doherty Associates Book (1992)
Alexandra came from a hardy pioneer clan. Over the protests of her traditionally minded brothers, their dying father wills her, not them, the family homestead. With an iron will, she resolves to wrest a prosperous enterprise from the unforgiving Nebraska soil. With her bold spirit and intelligence, she must survive tragedy and hardship to keep her family together and tame the wild land that she loves.
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Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin (1941)
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Cather, Willa
Alfred A. Knopf (2011)
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Houghton Mifflin company (1913)
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Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin (1988)
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Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin company (1913)
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Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin company (1913)
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Cather, Willa
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Schools: 1
Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin company (1913)
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Cather, Willa
Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, becomes a wealthy land owner after she inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Schools: 2
Cather, Willa
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Cather, Willa
Houghton Mifflin company (1913)
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Cather, Willa
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Cather, Willa
Book-of-the-Month Club (1995)
Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.
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Cather, Willa
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Cather, Willa
Hesperus Press Ltd. (2013)
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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