O Pioneers! -- Limited Edition, Westvaco Corporation, Christmas 2000 (Westvaco American Classics Series No. 43) by Cather, Willa - 2000

Rochester: Westvaco, 2000. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lacks slipcase. Boards lightly rubbed. 2000 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Limited Westvaco Corporation Christmas 2000 edition. Original green cloth, gilt titles, blue ribbon marker, illustrated color endpapers, color illustration on title page. Enclosed in publisher's light olive decorative slipcase. "O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClung and was completed at the McClung's home in Pittsburgh. O Pioneers! 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 she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when 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 another between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata." -- Wikipedia "Willa Cather's second novel is a timeless tale of a strong pioneer woman facing great challenges, shining a light on the immigrant experience, and revealing the emerging voice of one of our greatest authors." CONTENTS: Prairie Spring (Poem); Foreword; Willa Cather Biography; Part I: The Wild Land; Part II: Neighboring Fields; Part III: Winter Memories; Part IV: The White Mulberry Tree; Part V: Alexandra; Westvaco's American Classics Series; Acknowledgements; Colophon.