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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... gone to Frankfort to meet him , and was to stop on the way home and leave some groceries for the Wheelers . The train from the east was late ; it was ten o'clock that night when Mrs. Wheeler , waiting in the kitchen , heard Havel's ...
... gone through the Frankfort High School , and he was already a more successful man than Claude was ever likely to be . Leonard did think these things , but he was fond of Claude , all the same . At sunset the car was speeding over a fine ...
... gone off in the car , Mr. Wheeler drove to see his German neighbour , Gus Yoeder , who had just bought a blooded bull . Dan and Jerry were pitching horseshoes down behind the barn . Claude told Mahailey he was going to the cellar to put ...
... gone , but it wouldn't have been her idea of good manners to sit there . Her eyes had a kind of sleepy contentment in them as she followed Claude's motions . She watched him as if he were a baby playing . Her hands lay comfortably in ...
... member of the family would act in that capacity. Claude was reflecting upon the fact that he had never gone home before in such good spirits. Two fortunate things had ago. happened to him since he went over this road.