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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... its story . He had encouraged new settlers to take up homesteads , urged on courtships , lent young fellows the money to marry on , seen families grow and prosper ; until he felt a little as if all this were his own enterprise . The ...
... 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 care of the milk in the old way . " " It won't be when you get used to it , " Ralph assured her . He was the chief ...
... its bleeding stump. With one scream Claude became a little demon. He threw away his tin pail, jumped about howling and ... it's your father's tree. He has a perfect right to cut it down if he wants to. He's often said the trees were too ...
... its neat curtains of brown hair , came something below Claude's chin , and she peered up at him with that quaintly ... It's been lovely , " he murmured to her , quite without embarrassment , and in happy unconsciousness he turned the ...
... its lighted windows, something always clutched at his heart. He both loved and hated to come home. He was always disappointed, and yet he always felt the rightness of returning to his own place. Even when it broke his spirit and humbled ...