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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... laughed immoderately himself. In telling stories about him, people often tried to imitate his smooth, senatorial voice, robust but never loud. Even when he was hilariously delighted by anything —as when poor Mahailey, undressing in the ...
... 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 on the ...
... 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 , and he ...
... laughed rather mournfully . “ It doesn't matter much what I think about it ; things are as they are . Nothing is going to reach down from the sky and pick a man up , I guess . ' " 1 Claude muttered something to himself , twisting his ...
... laughed indulgently . " Oh , no ! Some other time . I don't want to break in on that . " " Nonsense ! You could teach her better than I. ” " Oh , I haven't the courage ! " " What do you mean ? " " You know what I mean . " " No , I don't ...