Scholarly Editions

      O Pioneers!

      My Ántonia

First Editions

      April Twilights

      The Troll Garden

      Alexander's Bridge

      The Song of the Lark

      Youth and the Bright Medusa

      One of Ours

Short Fiction

Interviews,
Speeches, and
Public Letters

Nonfiction

Journalism

Student Writing

First Editions

The Cather Archive currently has four first editions available in electronic format: April Twilights (1903), The Troll Garden (1905), Alexander's Bridge (1912) and One of Ours (1922). These editions are encoded in Extensible Markup Language (XML) using the standards developed by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and are presented complete with digital images of every surface in the original print edition.

In the future, we hope to present several more first editions, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), and Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920). Copyright restrictions prevent us from publishing digital versions of the first edition texts released after 1922.

April Twilights (1903)

The Troll Garden (1905)

Alexander's Bridge (1912)

The Song of the Lark (1915)

Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)

One of Ours (1922)