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Understanding O Pioneers! and My Ántonia: A Student Casebook to Issues ...
by Sheryl Meyering - 2002 - 223 pages
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My Ántonia

Willa Cather - 1918 - 462 pages
...they all came tumbling out of the cave into the light, was a sight any man might have come far to see. Antonia had always been one to leave images in the...like the old woodcuts of one's first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we came home in triumph with our snake; Antonia...
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My Ántonia

Willa Cather - 1918 - 458 pages
...into the light, was a sight any man might ^ hav;; come far to see. Antonia had always beenf^ one^to leave images in the mind that did not fade — that...the old woodcuts of one's / first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs'"* against the sides of my pony when we came V home in triumph with our snake;...
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My Ántonia

Willa Cather - 1918 - 406 pages
...they all came tumbling out of the cave into the light, was a sight any man might have come far to see. Antonia had always been one to leave images in the...mind that did not fade — that grew stronger with tune. In my memory there was a succession of such pictures, fixed there like the old woodcuts of one's...
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My Ántonia

Willa Cather - 1918 - 458 pages
...they all came tumbling out of the cave into the light, was a sight any man might have come far to see. Antonia had always been one to leave images in the...like the old woodcuts of one's first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we came home in triumph with our snake; Antonia...
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My Ántonia

Willa Cather - 1926 - 456 pages
...always been one to leave images in the mind thaFdid riot fade — that grew stronger witfitime. "TnTHy ~ memory there was a succession of such pictures, fixed...like the old woodcuts of one's first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we came home in triumph with our snake; Antonia...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 27

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1928 - 490 pages
...American fiction, sooner or later the mind turns inevitably with a homing instinct back to "Antonia." "Antonia had always been one to leave images in the...succession of such pictures, fixed there like the woodcuts in one's first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 27

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1928 - 484 pages
...American fiction, sooner or later the mind turns inevitably with a homing instinct back to "Antonia." "Antonia had always been one to leave images in the...succession of such pictures, fixed there like the woodcuts in one's first primer : Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we...
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Willa Cather-Aw

Dorothy Van Ghent - 1964 - 48 pages
...her kitchen. With scarcely a tooth in her head, save for some broken brown snags, she is still able to leave "images in the mind that did not fade — that grew stronger with time . . . She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and...
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Seven American Women Writers of the Twentieth Century: An Introduction

Maureen Howard - 1977 - 390 pages
...her kitchen. With scarcely a tooth in her head, save for some broken brown snags, she is still able to leave "images in the mind that did not fade — that grew stronger with time . . . She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and...
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The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism

Susan J. Rosowski - 2001 - 308 pages
...frozen in time, and these moments make up the essential experience of the novel. Like Antonia, who could "leave images in the mind that did not fade, that grew stronger with time,"14 so does A Lost Lady leave such images: Mrs. Forrester bringing cookies to the boys in the...
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