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b'We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\\u2019ll read the opening to Willa Cather\\u2019s 1918 novel My \\xc1ntonia. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.\\xa0To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\\n\\nThe novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, \\xc1ntonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.\\xa0\\n\\nThis novel is considered Cather\'s first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.\\xa0\\n\\n\\u2014 read by \'V\' \\u2014\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'