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Beyond `My Antonia'.

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From: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20020828
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Byline: Julia Keller

These lines from "My Antonia" (1918) are inscribed on Willa Cather's tombstone in Jaffrey, N.H.: " ... that is happiness, to be dissolved in something complete and great."

Indeed, her writing possessed a quality often associated with epitaphs: It is strong, vivid and succinct. There was no flipness in Cather. Humor, yes _ but she was no smart aleck.

Among her other notable novels, all of which are still in print in various hardcover and paperback editions:

"O Pioneers!" (1913)

"The Song of the Lark" (1915)

"One of Ours" (1922)

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