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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... brought his home town into the light once and gloriously. It was like a long roll call, and all the little prairie towns were answering that they were there. When I went West again in the summer of 1918, soon after Cantigny and Belleau ...
... brought his home town into the light once and gloriously. It was like a long roll call, and all the little prairie towns were answering that they were there. When I went West again in the summer of 1918, soon after Cantigny and Belleau ...
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... brought to town and piled up in the show-windows of the shoe store—more than any one could believe, and next month there would be just as many. I used to walk slowly by, looking at them. Their presence there was taken as a matter of ...
... brought to town and piled up in the show-windows of the shoe store—more than any one could believe, and next month there would be just as many. I used to walk slowly by, looking at them. Their presence there was taken as a matter of ...
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... brought her fifty dollars and put it down on the table and took the bond, remarking, “I guess I help fight Austria in my same clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on Saturday nights. The “foreign mail” had ...
... brought her fifty dollars and put it down on the table and took the bond, remarking, “I guess I help fight Austria in my same clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on Saturday nights. The “foreign mail” had ...
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... brought the wonders of this war home to me so much as the work I saw being done on what were called “refugee garments”—chemises and blouses for the destitute women of Belgium and northern France, and underdrawers and shirts for the old ...
... brought the wonders of this war home to me so much as the work I saw being done on what were called “refugee garments”—chemises and blouses for the destitute women of Belgium and northern France, and underdrawers and shirts for the old ...
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... brought up the rear of the procession. He ran across, through a crowd of shouting youngsters, and caught Ernest by the arm. “Hello, where are you off to?” “I'm going to eat my lunch before show-time. I left my wagon out by the pumping ...
... brought up the rear of the procession. He ran across, through a crowd of shouting youngsters, and caught Ernest by the arm. “Hello, where are you off to?” “I'm going to eat my lunch before show-time. I left my wagon out by the pumping ...
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