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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... boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the schoolhouse yard or in the Court House Square. Early the next summer, when we had still to prove. *This article, from The Red Cross Magazine of July 1919, makes a fitting introductory ...
... boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the schoolhouse yard or in the Court House Square. Early the next summer, when we had still to prove. *This article, from The Red Cross Magazine of July 1919, makes a fitting introductory ...
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... boys had been snatched away early—not to training camps or to way-stations, but rushed through to France. They all spoke a little household French, which was just what the American college boy who had been reading Racine and Victor Hugo ...
... boys had been snatched away early—not to training camps or to way-stations, but rushed through to France. They all spoke a little household French, which was just what the American college boy who had been reading Racine and Victor Hugo ...
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... boy, the town favorite, who was dying of his wounds in a hospital on the Place de la Concorde, wrote only gay letters ... boys should have to go. I asked a German girl, a neighbor of the Lovemanns', why they didn't try to get exemption ...
... boy, the town favorite, who was dying of his wounds in a hospital on the Place de la Concorde, wrote only gay letters ... boys should have to go. I asked a German girl, a neighbor of the Lovemanns', why they didn't try to get exemption ...
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... boys 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 ...
... boys 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 ...
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... boy who was not thin-skinned. II Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as the calliope went screaming down Main street at the head of the ... boys. Mr. Wheeler was standing on the Farmer's Bank corner, towering ON LOVELY CREEK 7.
... boy who was not thin-skinned. II Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as the calliope went screaming down Main street at the head of the ... boys. Mr. Wheeler was standing on the Farmer's Bank corner, towering ON LOVELY CREEK 7.
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