My Antonia

A beautiful hardcover gift edition of My Antonia with a gorgeous cover with an intial corrosponding to the author's surname, hand designed by type superstar Jessica Hische. C is for Cather and the one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great igration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the novel follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story.