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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Willa Cather. I Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother , who lay in the other half of the same bed . " Ralph , Ralph , get awake ! Come down and help me wash the car . " " What for ...
... Claude started for the barn after breakfast, she came running down the path, calling to him faintly —hurrying always made her short of breath. Overtaking him, she looked up with solicitude , shading her eyes with her delicately formed hand.
Willa Cather. solicitude , shading her eyes with her delicately formed hand . “ If you want I should do up your linen coat , Claude , I can iron it while you're hitching , " she said wistfully . Claude stood kicking at a bunch of mottled ...
... eyes at the light , looking astonished but eager to do whatever was required of him . What if one of her own boys , Mrs. Wheeler thought .... She went up to him and put her arm around him , laughing a little and saying in her quiet ...
... eyes full of energy . He and his father and two brothers not only worked their own big farm , but rented a quarter ... eye a little off colour ? Did he tell you how he got it ? " " No. I didn't ask him . " " Just as well . A lot of ...