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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... things gleaming in the sun off through the trees; boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the schoolhouse yard or in the Court House Square. Early the next summer, when we had still to prove. *This article, from The Red Cross ...
... things gleaming in the sun off through the trees; boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the schoolhouse yard or in the Court House Square. Early the next summer, when we had still to prove. *This article, from The Red Cross ...
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... of everything but sons. When a people really speaks to a people, I felt, it doesn't speak by oratory or cablegrams; it speaks by things like these. Up in the French settlement, in the north part of INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii.
... of everything but sons. When a people really speaks to a people, I felt, it doesn't speak by oratory or cablegrams; it speaks by things like these. Up in the French settlement, in the north part of INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii.
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... things about farm-life and customs in the old coun- try—beautiful things which I can never forget—that I used to ask them why they had left such a lovely land for our raw prairies. The answer was always the same—to escape military ...
... things about farm-life and customs in the old coun- try—beautiful things which I can never forget—that I used to ask them why they had left such a lovely land for our raw prairies. The answer was always the same—to escape military ...
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Willa Cather. After he had talked with Ernest for awhile , the things that did not go right on the farm seemed less important . Claude's mother was almost as fond of Ernest as he was him- self . When the two boys were going to high ...
Willa Cather. After he had talked with Ernest for awhile , the things that did not go right on the farm seemed less important . Claude's mother was almost as fond of Ernest as he was him- self . When the two boys were going to high ...
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... things were done on the Wheeler place, and thought his going to college a waste of money. Leonard had not even gone through the Frankfort High School, and he was already a more successful man than Claude was ever likely to be. Leonard ...
... things were done on the Wheeler place, and thought his going to college a waste of money. Leonard had not even gone through the Frankfort High School, and he was already a more successful man than Claude was ever likely to be. Leonard ...
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