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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 60
Seite viii
... door and presented her arguments. She heard the canvasser through, then 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 ...
... door and presented her arguments. She heard the canvasser through, then 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 ...
Seite 1
... door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey's tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair. Old Mahailey herself came in from the yard, with her apron full of corn ...
... door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey's tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair. Old Mahailey herself came in from the yard, with her apron full of corn ...
Seite 2
... doors, down the hillside toward the barn. The sun popped up over the edge of the prairie like a broad, smiling face; the light poured across the close-cropped August pastures and the hilly, timbered windings of Lovely Creek,—a clear ...
... doors, down the hillside toward the barn. The sun popped up over the edge of the prairie like a broad, smiling face; the light poured across the close-cropped August pastures and the hilly, timbered windings of Lovely Creek,—a clear ...
Seite 9
... door on his disagreeable morning. Ernest produced his lunch basket. “I got a couple bottles of beer cooling in the creek,” he said. “I knew you wouldn't want to go in a saloon.” “Oh, forget it!” Claude muttered, ripping the cover off a ...
... door on his disagreeable morning. Ernest produced his lunch basket. “I got a couple bottles of beer cooling in the creek,” he said. “I knew you wouldn't want to go in a saloon.” “Oh, forget it!” Claude muttered, ripping the cover off a ...
Seite 10
... door, and presently Joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of flour on his shoulder. While he took the fish down to the cellar for her, another figure appeared in the doorway; a young boy, short, stooped, with a ...
... door, and presently Joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of flour on his shoulder. While he took the fish down to the cellar for her, another figure appeared in the doorway; a young boy, short, stooped, with a ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afternoon ain't Americans Anchises asked Bayliss began boys brother called Cantigny chair chust cigar Claude thought Claude took Claude's clothes Colonel couldn’t creek dark David didn’t door dress Enid Erlich Ernest everything eyes face farm Farmer father feeling fellow felt fields France Frankfort Frankfort High School French garden Gerhardt German girl Gladys guess hand head heard Hicks hill Joubert Kansas band kitchen knew laughed Leonard Lieutenant light live looked Mahailey Marne mind morning mother Nebraska neighbours never night officers Pal Battalions Ralph rose Royce seemed shoulders smiled soldiers stood stopped supper talk Tannhauser tell things told Tom Wested town trees turned Victor voice walked watched Wheeler Wheeler farm Willa Cather window woman women wonder Yoeder young