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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... underdrawers with from ten to fifteen buttons, and worked the buttonholes. I am sure there is not a woman in our town who makes her husband's underclothes. American women, especially Western women, have a natural xi INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
... underdrawers with from ten to fifteen buttons, and worked the buttonholes. I am sure there is not a woman in our town who makes her husband's underclothes. American women, especially Western women, have a natural xi INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
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... sure that our own are best. A great deal of verse has been written to Belgium in this country; but when I saw our smart, capable Western women patiently making drawers with fifteen buttonholes and smiling with a kind of pride in their ...
... sure that our own are best. A great deal of verse has been written to Belgium in this country; but when I saw our smart, capable Western women patiently making drawers with fifteen buttonholes and smiling with a kind of pride in their ...
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... sure, he never suffered from anything more perplexing than toothache or boils, or an occasional bilious attack. Wheeler gave liberally to churches and charities, was always ready to lend money or machinery to a neighbour who was short ...
... sure, he never suffered from anything more perplexing than toothache or boils, or an occasional bilious attack. Wheeler gave liberally to churches and charities, was always ready to lend money or machinery to a neighbour who was short ...
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... 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. He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter, but he never laughed immoderately himself. In ...
... 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. He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter, but he never laughed immoderately himself. In ...
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... sure that he was outwardly composed before he went in to see his mother. “Ran against a reaper in the dark!” he muttered aloud, clenching his fist. Listening to the deep singing of the frogs, and to the distant barking of the dogs up at ...
... sure that he was outwardly composed before he went in to see his mother. “Ran against a reaper in the dark!” he muttered aloud, clenching his fist. Listening to the deep singing of the frogs, and to the distant barking of the dogs up at ...
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