Willa Cather
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O Pioneers!
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers!....
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not the right performance for Cather
- By Cobscookie on 04-01-16
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O Pioneers!
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-09-10
- Language: English
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My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Shimerda family come to Nebraska from Bohemia - but they find the promised land of opportunity a harsh and unforgiving reality....
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A deep river of American writing
- By Darwin8u on 02-03-13
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My Antonia
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Filibooks Narration (Michael)
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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"Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a masterful work of historical fiction by Willa Cather. Set in the American Southwest in the mid-19th century, the novel tells the story of a young French priest who is sent to establish a Catholic diocese in a rugged and unfamiliar land.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Narrated by: Filibooks Narration (Michael)
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-24-24
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: David Ackroyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief....
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A beautiful story, perfectly read
- By Eugene on 01-25-17
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Narrated by: David Ackroyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-13-16
- Language: English
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The Song of the Lark
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Ken Burns - introduction
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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The daughter of a Swedish minister growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg's musical talent sets her apart from her contemporaries....
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Willa knows my heart
- By jeff on 05-28-20
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The Song of the Lark
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Ken Burns - introduction
- Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-21-10
- Language: English
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Great Classic Stories III
- 22 Unabridged Classics
- By: Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, and others
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators....
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WARNING- It is missing half of the stories!
- By Mountain man on 12-06-21
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Great Classic Stories III
- 22 Unabridged Classics
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. While the area is American by law, it's still Mexican and Indian by custom and belief. During the years that follow, Latour tirelessly but gently spreads his faith while facing external and internal obstacles....
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Unforgettable story of the land and peoples of the New Mexican territory of the 1800s
- By Jan Caudell on 09-20-24
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-03-23
- Language: English
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Lucy Gayheart
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man....
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Beautifully written and narrated!
- By melany levenson on 05-27-24
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Lucy Gayheart
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-01-16
- Language: English
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My Ántonia: Unabridged
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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My Ántonia relates the story of two young arrivals in Nebraska in the 1880s: Jim Burden and Ántonia Shimerda. Jim is an orphan, traveling to Nebraska to live with his grandparents, while Ántonia is emigrating to Nebraska with her Bohemian parents and siblings....
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My Ántonia: Unabridged
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-05-23
- Language: English
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My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, learns of the joys and hardships of life as she and her family realize their dream in the Nebraska farmlands....
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love this little book
- By J.Giesen on 07-25-17
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My Antonia
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-29-12
- Language: English
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My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska....
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Good book
- By Sher from Provo on 03-31-14
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My Antonia
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-02-07
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Inspired by real-life characters and events, Willa Cather’s historical novel follows the committed efforts of two friends, Bishop Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, to establish a diocese in the newly acquired US territory of New Mexico....
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Death comes for the Archbishop
- By Mary Leahy on 08-20-23
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-07-23
- Language: English
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My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Cindy Hardin Killavey, Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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My Ántonia is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather....
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Worst Narrator Ever!
- By Schucity on 01-13-15
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My Antonia
- Narrated by: Cindy Hardin Killavey, Jim Killavey
- Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-08-10
- Language: English
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O Pioneers!
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Life was hard on the Nebraska prairie, but for Alexandra Bergson, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, her love of the land gave her courage and strength....
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Lifted and carried lightly by some one very strong
- By Darwin8u on 03-24-13
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O Pioneers!
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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The Very Best of Willa Cather: My Antonia and O, Pioneers!
- By: WIlla Cather
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Willa Cather achieved recognition for her novels depicting American life on the prairie frontier....
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The reader needs supervision during recording
- By M. Hill on 01-23-22
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The Very Best of Willa Cather: My Antonia and O, Pioneers!
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-08-21
- Language: English
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A Lost Lady (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Marian Forrester arrives in Sweet Water as the treasured bride of a retired builder. To her husband she embodies the idealism of this railroad town on the Western plains. And to Niel Herbert, a smitten young local boy, she’s so perfect as to belong to a different world....
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Nice listen/read
- By B&K on 07-21-23
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A Lost Lady (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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The Song of the Lark
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Written in 1915 and featuring lyrical and authentic insights about life on the frontier, this book is the second in Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy", following O Pioneers! and preceding My Ántonia....
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Requires a little patience, but worthwhile
- By Minneapolis listener on 02-22-23
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The Song of the Lark
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-02-18
- Language: English
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My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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When high-powered New York attorney Jim Burden recollects his childhood on the Nebraska prairie, Ántonia Shimerda is at the heart of every memory....
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Lovely vignettes have a part of the country. I was not familiar with.
- By Tess on 04-30-24
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My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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My Ántonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Orphaned at the age of 10, Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. There he meets Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of an immigrant family from Bohemia, who have come to carve out a life for themselves in the harsh and bountiful Nebraskan landscape....
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Amazing narration of a classic
- By BHMMary on 06-18-20
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My Ántonia
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-12-20
- Language: English
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The Professor's House
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels....
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Gently compelling
- By TiffanyD on 08-12-19
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The Professor's House
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-27-16
- Language: English
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