My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

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"I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska."

From My Ántonia, a novel by Willa Cather (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918).