One of OursCourier Corporation, 18.01.2013 - 352 Seiten In Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, we meet Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan yearning to escape the life that has been preordained for him. Claude is dissatisfied with farming, alienated from his parents, distant from his wife, and searching for something to believe in. When the country enters the First World War, he finally discovers what he's been looking for. Away from home for the first time, Claude finds the course of his life irrevocably altered by newfound friendships and experiences on distant battlefields. One of Ours continues to be a celebratory tribute — and a grief-stricken remembrance — of World War I. It is at once a courageous and poignant story of American ideals, an extraordinary character sketch, and a disquieting look at the making of an American soldier. |
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... better idea of the magnitude of what was going on than did all the figures I read in the newspapers. Shiploads of food, shiploads of clothes—what do they mean, unless you know the fields that grew the grain and the hands that made the ...
... better idea of the magnitude of what was going on than did all the figures I read in the newspapers. Shiploads of food, shiploads of clothes—what do they mean, unless you know the fields that grew the grain and the hands that made the ...
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... better if she adopted modern methods? Americans are never slow to give advice of that kind. I believe, in this case, the answer is that our women simply admired Belgium too much; they had no suggestions to offer to such a people. Their ...
... better if she adopted modern methods? Americans are never slow to give advice of that kind. I believe, in this case, the answer is that our women simply admired Belgium too much; they had no suggestions to offer to such a people. Their ...
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... better start in early, though. You can take the wagon and the mules, and load in the cowhides. The butcher has agreed to take them.” Claude put down his knife. “Can't we have the car? I've washed it on purpose.” “And what about Dan and ...
... better start in early, though. You can take the wagon and the mules, and load in the cowhides. The butcher has agreed to take them.” Claude put down his knife. “Can't we have the car? I've washed it on purpose.” “And what about Dan and ...
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... better wear my old clothes if I have to take the hides. They're greasy, and in the sun they'll smell worse than fertilizer.” “The men can handle the hides, I should think. Wouldn't you feel better in town to be dressed?” She was still ...
... better wear my old clothes if I have to take the hides. They're greasy, and in the sun they'll smell worse than fertilizer.” “The men can handle the hides, I should think. Wouldn't you feel better in town to be dressed?” She was still ...
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... better when he didn't have to keep his mind on the road. He had come to this part of Nebraska when the Indians and the buffalo were still about, remembered the grasshopper year and the big cyclone, had watched the farms emerge one by ...
... better when he didn't have to keep his mind on the road. He had come to this part of Nebraska when the Indians and the buffalo were still about, remembered the grasshopper year and the big cyclone, had watched the farms emerge one by ...
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