My Ántonia
The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition
http://cather.unl.edu/0003.html
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On April 24, 1947, Cather died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in her home at 570 Park Avenue in Manhattan.[2]:504[49]
Cather was buried in the Old Burying Ground, behind the Jaffrey Center Meeting House in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Her grave site, which she shares with Edith Lewis, is at the southwest corner of the graveyard. She had first visited Jaffrey in 1917 with Isabelle McClung, staying at the Shattuck Inn, where she came late in life for the seclusion necessary for her writing.[50] The inscription on her tombstone reads:
WILLA CATHER
December 7, 1873–April 24, 1947
THE TRUTH AND CHARITY OF HER GREAT
SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON IN THE WORK
WHICH IS HER ENDURING GIFT TO HER
COUNTRY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE.
". . . that is happiness; to be dissolved
into something complete and great."
From My Antonia
December 7, 1873–April 24, 1947
THE TRUTH AND CHARITY OF HER GREAT
SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON IN THE WORK
WHICH IS HER ENDURING GIFT TO HER
COUNTRY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE.
". . . that is happiness; to be dissolved
into something complete and great."
From My Antonia
"Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody."
―from MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
http://hctranslations.blogspot.tw/2016/06/optima-diesprima-fugit-my-antonia.html
My Ántonia, by Willa Cather
Table of Contents
Introduction
Book I— The Shimerdas
Book II— The Hired Girls
Book III— Lena Lingard
Book IV— The Pioneer Woman’s Story
Book V— Cuzak’s Boys
查此段，才發現今日世界出版的 {原野長宵} (湯新楣譯，1964再版)是個約1/2的摘譯本。實在有點離譜。
"Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody."
--from MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
--from MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/25296/my-antonia/