Author(s): Willa Cather

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My ntonia By Willa Cather My ntonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My ntonia - pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of " ntonia" - is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers and The Song of the Lark.My ntonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named ntonia.