Lesson 1: My Ántonia—Book I
Reading Assignment
- Course introduction
- My Ántonia
- Introduction and Book I, Chapters I–IX (“Last summer I happened . . . he was being protected by Providence.”)
The Willa Cather Archive has an online scholarly edition of the book with a glossary and notes. The website includes an image gallery, biography, and multimedia.
Note: Chapter references in this lesson are for the 1994 Dover edition of My Ántonia. If you’re reading the online scholarly edition, or another edition that does not indicate chapter breaks, use the opening and closing quotations in parentheses to determine the reading assignment.
