O Pioneers!

Willa Cather — a classic of American literature, winner of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize (1923) and Prix Femina Americain (1933).

After the death of her father, an immigrant from Sweden, Alexandra Bergson inherits a farm in Nebraska. Ahead of her lies a multitude of troubles — lack of money, loss of livestock, and years of poor harvests — but Alexandra is ready to do anything to bring the family business to prosperity. In this difficult time, when many neighbors give up and leave the lands that have become dear to them, she faces the necessity of making a choice between personal happiness and duty. 

«O Pioneers!» — a major American novel about fateful changes, the search for one's place in the world, and the choice between the «old» and the «new». The book opens the «Nebraska Trilogy» about the Great Plains.