The Prairie Trilogy: With Accompanying Audiobooks

The Prairie Trilogy: With Accompanying Audiobooks

The Prairie Trilogy consists of the novels <i>O Pioneers!</i>, <i>The Song of the Lark</i> and <i>My Ántonia</i>.<br /><br /><i>O Pioneers!</i> tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies and devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.<br /><br />Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional town located in Colorado, <i>The Song of the Lark</i> is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a well-trained pianist, a better piano teacher. When her piano instructor hears her voice, he realizes that this is her true artistic gift.<br /><br /><i>My Ántonia</i> tells the story of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska. Antonia is the eldest daughter of the Shimerdas and is a bold and free-hearted young woman who becomes the center of narrator Jim Burden's attention.<br /><br />This edition of <i>The Prairie Trilogy</i> includes all three novels and links to <b>free audiobook version of all three novels</b>.