“O先驱!”讲一个社区的故事在内布拉斯加农场国家。Alexandra

Bergson,是一个瑞典移民。Cather创造社区和欧洲种族小组的它的富有混合的一张奇妙画像: 挪威语, 瑞典语, 法语等。它是特别引人入胜看他们在美国创造的多文化，Cather并且描述发生沿着generational线 的文化和语言“转移”。

One of America"s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America"s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian,and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them. Cather"s novel is a uniquely Amencan epic.

Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father"s farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather"s great heroines all of them women of strong will and even stronger desire to overcome adversity a nd succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather"s books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her:“The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us”。

Introduction by Vivian Gornick

PART I

The Wild Land

PART II

Neighboring Fields

PART III

Winter Memories

PART IV

The White Mulbery Tree

PART V

Alexandra