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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... light which was beginning to come through the curtainless windows . Claude rose and dressed - a simple operation which took very little time . He crept down two flights of stairs , feeling his way in the dusk , his red hair standing up ...
... light poured across the close-cropped August pastures and the hilly, timbered windings of Lovely Creek, a clear little stream with a sand bottom, that curled and twisted playfully about through the south section of the big Wheeler ranch ...
... light , went easily over heavy or rough roads , and was so rickety that he never felt he must suggest his wife's accompanying him . Besides he could see the country better when he didn't have to keep his mind on the road . He had come ...
... 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 voice , just as ...
... light that shone from the house on the hill . At the little bridge over the creek , he stopped to get his breath and to be sure that he was outwardly composed before he went in to see his mother . " Ran against a reaper in the dark ...