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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... heard New York business men and journalists that the West wouldn't know there was a war until it was in the next county: the West was too busy making money and spending it. say Myself, I scarcely realized what being “in the war” meant ...
... heard New York business men and journalists that the West wouldn't know there was a war until it was in the next county: the West was too busy making money and spending it. say Myself, I scarcely realized what being “in the war” meant ...
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... heard the canvasser through, then brought her fifty dollars and put it down on the table and took the bond, remark- ing, “I guess I help fight Austria in my same clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on ...
... heard the canvasser through, then brought her fifty dollars and put it down on the table and took the bond, remark- ing, “I guess I help fight Austria in my same clothes anyhow!” Letters from the front usually reached our town on ...
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... heard much at home about an efficient woman in Omaha who was at the head of the Red Cross work in the state and who kept on her desk a map with colored pins stuck in the dots which indicate the little towns , and these pins in some way ...
... heard much at home about an efficient woman in Omaha who was at the head of the Red Cross work in the state and who kept on her desk a map with colored pins stuck in the dots which indicate the little towns , and these pins in some way ...
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... heard him speak with complete seriousness . He kept up his easy - going , jocular affability even with his own family . As soon as he was seated , Mr. Wheeler reached for the two- pint sugar bowl and began to pour sugar into his coffee ...
... heard him speak with complete seriousness . He kept up his easy - going , jocular affability even with his own family . As soon as he was seated , Mr. Wheeler reached for the two- pint sugar bowl and began to pour sugar into his coffee ...
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... heard that a neighbour had played a sharp trick or done something particularly mean, he was sure to drive over to see the man at once, as if he hadn't hitherto appreciated him. There was a large, loafing dignity about Claude's father ...
... heard that a neighbour had played a sharp trick or done something particularly mean, he was sure to drive over to see the man at once, as if he hadn't hitherto appreciated him. There was a large, loafing dignity about Claude's father ...
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