One of OursStandard Ebooks Claude Wheeler is the son of a successful Nebraskan farmer and a very devout mother. He’s sent to a private religious college because his mother feels it’s safer, but he yearns for State college where he might be able expand his knowledge of the real world. Claude doesn’t feel comfortable in any situation, and almost every step he takes is a wrong one. While he’s struggling to find his way in a questionable marriage, the U.S. decides to enter World War I, and Claude enlists. He’s commissioned as a lieutenant, and he and his outfit are deployed to France in the waning months of the war. There Claude finds the purpose he’s been missing his whole life. One of Ours is Cather’s first novel following the completion of her Prairie Trilogy, which she finished before the U.S. had entered the war. Cather’s cousin Grosvenor had grown up on the farm next to hers, had many of the traits she gave to Claude, and, like her protagonist, went with the Army to France towards the end of the war. After the war was over, she felt compelled to write something different than the novels she had become known for, saying that this one “stood between me and anything else.” Although today it’s not considered her best work, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks. |
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... Leonard Dawson , the oldest son of one of the Wheelers ' near neighbours , and the three sat together for the performance . Leonard said he had come to town alone in his car ; wouldn't Claude.
... Leonard only laughed and stretched his long arms , and put in a bigger crop next year . Claude was always a little reserved with Leonard ; he felt that the young man was rather contemptuous of the haphazard way in which things were done ...
... Leonard laughed . " Lord , no ! Don't you know Bayliss ? I went in there to pay a bill yesterday , and Susie Gray and another girl came in to sell tickets for the firemen's dinner . An advance man for this circus was hanging around ...
... Leonard Dawson saw he had hurt the boy's feelings . " Lord , Claude , I know you're a fighter . Bayliss never was . I went to school with him . " The ride ended amicably , but Claude wouldn't let Leonard take him home . He jumped out of ...
... Leonard Dawson saw him beat one of our horses with the neck - yoke . Leonard told your father , and spoke his mind , and your father discharged Jerry . If you or Ralph had told him , he most likely wouldn't have done anything about it ...