My Antonia (1918)  Tags: antonia willa cather  

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Full text of Cather's My Ántonia is available on the Web at:

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Willa Cather's My Ántonia. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers [vol 1]
• American Women Writers [vol 1]
• Contemporary Authors [vols 104, 128]
  
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 1]
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• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 2]
• Encyclopedia of American Social History
• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
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• Modern American Literature [vols 1, 4, 5, 6]
  
• Modern American Women Writers
• Notable American Novelists [vol 1]
• Novels for Students [vol 2]
• A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 11, 31, 99, 132, 152] - check under My Ántonia in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 28] - locate the topical essay "The American Frontier in Literature"
  • [vol 50] - locate the topical essay "Madness in Twentieth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 82] - locate the topical essay "Sex in Literature"
  • [vol 94] - locate the topical essay "Women in Modern Literature"
  • [vol 132] - locate the "Special Commissioned Entry on Willa Cather"
  • [vol 182] - locate the topical essay "American Literary Naturalism"
  • [vol 206] - locate the topical essay "American Immigrant Literature"
    

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