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O Pioneers!: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

O Pioneers!: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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O Pioneers! is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Cather, Willa (1873–1947).

Catalogue synopsis

Project Gutenberg supplies this automated synopsis of the opening text:

"O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather is a novel published in 1913. It follows Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant who inherits her family's Nebraska farmland and fights to build prosperity on the harsh prairie while neighbors abandon their dreams. As the land transforms under her determination, two forbidden romances unfold—one between Alexandra and an old friend, the other between her brother Emil and a married woman—testing loyalty, passion, and the price of survival in an unforgiving frontier.

Book and edition facts

  • Title: O Pioneers!
  • Author credits: Cather, Willa (1873–1947)
  • Catalogue language: English

Catalogue subjects

  • Domestic fiction
  • Farm life -- Fiction
  • Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • Nebraska -- Fiction
  • Siblings -- Fiction
  • Swedish Americans -- Fiction
  • Women farmers -- Fiction
  • Women immigrants -- Fiction
  • Women pioneers -- Fiction

Gutenberg collections

  • Category: American Literature
  • Category: Novels

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