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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... clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on Saturday nights. The “foreign mail” had become a feature of life in Kansas and Nebraska. The letters came in bunches; if one mother heard from her son, so did half a ...
... clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on Saturday nights. The “foreign mail” had become a feature of life in Kansas and Nebraska. The letters came in bunches; if one mother heard from her son, so did half a ...
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... clothes—what do they mean, unless you know the fields that grew the grain and the hands that made the clothes? N. OTHING brought the wonders of this war home to me so much as the work I saw being done on what were called “refugee ...
... clothes—what do they mean, unless you know the fields that grew the grain and the hands that made the clothes? N. OTHING brought the wonders of this war home to me so much as the work I saw being done on what were called “refugee ...
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... clothes they had always lived in, with no feeling of strangeness. The every-day ways of a very foreign people had come through to us, who are always so sure that our own are best. A great deal of verse has been written to Belgium in ...
... clothes they had always lived in, with no feeling of strangeness. The every-day ways of a very foreign people had come through to us, who are always so sure that our own are best. A great deal of verse has been written to Belgium in ...
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... 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 blinking up at him ...
... 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 blinking up at him ...
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... clothes, his big farm, his buckboard, and Bayliss. Mrs. Wheeler had come out from Vermont to be Principal of the High School, when Frankfort was a frontier town and Nat Wheeler was a prosperous bachelor. He must have fancied her for the ...
... clothes, his big farm, his buckboard, and Bayliss. Mrs. Wheeler had come out from Vermont to be Principal of the High School, when Frankfort was a frontier town and Nat Wheeler was a prosperous bachelor. He must have fancied her for the ...
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