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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... 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 Wood, I saw the working out of all ...
... 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 Wood, I saw the working out of all ...
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... once again, adding, with a twinkle in her eye, “And I don't believe he'd begrudge it to us, this once, do you?” “He? Who?” “Hoover.” NOT. only was the cookery changed in my town and in all other little towns like it, but the whole ...
... once again, adding, with a twinkle in her eye, “And I don't believe he'd begrudge it to us, this once, do you?” “He? Who?” “Hoover.” NOT. only was the cookery changed in my town and in all other little towns like it, but the whole ...
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... once a week at some appointed farmhouse to cut out garments, get their Red Cross instructions and materials, and then take the garments home to sew on them whenever they could. It went on in every farmhouse—American women, Swedish women ...
... once a week at some appointed farmhouse to cut out garments, get their Red Cross instructions and materials, and then take the garments home to sew on them whenever they could. It went on in every farmhouse—American women, Swedish women ...
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... once been a young chicken. His shoulders were drawn high, his mother saw, and his figure suggested energy and determined self-control. “You needn't mind, mother.” He spoke rapidly, muttering his words. “I'd better wear my old clothes if ...
... once been a young chicken. His shoulders were drawn high, his mother saw, and his figure suggested energy and determined self-control. “You needn't mind, mother.” He spoke rapidly, muttering his words. “I'd better wear my old clothes if ...
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... once only the wind wrote its story. He had encouraged new settlers to take up homesteads, urged on courtships, lent young fellows the money to marry on, seen families grow and prosper; until he felt a little as if all this were his own ...
... once only the wind wrote its story. He had encouraged new settlers to take up homesteads, urged on courtships, lent young fellows the money to marry on, seen families grow and prosper; until he felt a little as if all this were his own ...
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