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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... waited for the draft but were already in training camps. In the afternoons one saw white things gleaming in the sun off through the trees; boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the school- house yard or in the Court House ...
... waited for the draft but were already in training camps. In the afternoons one saw white things gleaming in the sun off through the trees; boys in their shirts and trousers, drilling in the school- house yard or in the Court House ...
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... wait- ing in the kitchen , heard Havel's wagon rumble across the little bridge over Lovely Creek . She opened the outside door , and presently Joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of flour on his shoulder ...
... wait- ing in the kitchen , heard Havel's wagon rumble across the little bridge over Lovely Creek . She opened the outside door , and presently Joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of flour on his shoulder ...
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... waited for him to come back at me . I'm bigger than he is , and I wanted to give him satisfac- tion . Well , sir , he never moved a muscle ! He stood there getting redder and redder , and his eyes watered . I don't say he cried , but ...
... waited for him to come back at me . I'm bigger than he is , and I wanted to give him satisfac- tion . Well , sir , he never moved a muscle ! He stood there getting redder and redder , and his eyes watered . I don't say he cried , but ...
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... waiting for " him " to bring home a squirrel he had shot or a chicken he had stolen . Too often he brought nothing but a jug of mountain whiskey and a pair of brutal fists . She thought herself well off now , never to have to beg for ...
... waiting for " him " to bring home a squirrel he had shot or a chicken he had stolen . Too often he brought nothing but a jug of mountain whiskey and a pair of brutal fists . She thought herself well off now , never to have to beg for ...
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... rolled it under his arm, and scudded along the edge of the frozen fields, arriving at the frame schoolhouse panting and shivering, but very well pleased with himself. V Claude waited for his elders to change their mind 22 One of Ours.
... rolled it under his arm, and scudded along the edge of the frozen fields, arriving at the frame schoolhouse panting and shivering, but very well pleased with himself. V Claude waited for his elders to change their mind 22 One of Ours.
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