My Antonia

My Antonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My Antonia — pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "Antonia" — is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia.