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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... Don't bother about it . Put me out a clean coloured shirt , if you want to . That's all right . ” He turned toward the barn , and his mother went slowly back the path up to the house . She was so plucky and so stooped , his dear mother ...
... 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 , and he began talking a little ...
... don't , but I won't have you thinking you can slap the men in my family whenever you feel like it . " Claude knew that his explanation sounded foolish , and his voice , in spite of all he could do , was weak and angry . Young Leonard ...
... don't know but you'd better let us be . I could see the advantage of a separator if we milked half - a - dozen cows . It's a very ingenious machine . But it's a great deal more work to scald it and fit it together than it was to take ...
... don't you go encouraging her into thinking she can't change her ways . Mother's entitled to all the laboursaving devices we can get her . ” Claude rattled the thirty - odd graduated metal funnels which he was trying to fit together in ...