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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... the dark on a summer night, sat down on the sticky flypaper —he was not boisterous. He was a jolly, easygoing father, indeed, for a boy who was not thin-skinned. II Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as.
... at the long kitchen table Mrs. Wheeler brought her darning and sat near them, helping them with their Latin and algebra. Even old Mahailey was enlightened by their words of wisdom. Mrs. Wheeler said she would never forget the night Ernest.
... night when Mrs. Wheeler , waiting in the kitchen , heard Havel's wagon rumble across the little bridge over Lovely Creek . She opened the outside door , and presently Joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of ...
... teach her to read, but what she learned one night she had forgotten by the next. She could count, and tell the time of day by the clock, and she was very proud of knowing the alphabet and of being able to spell out letters on.
... night Mr. Wheeler brought the subject up at supper , questioned Claude , and tried to get at the cause of his discontent . His manner was jocular , as usual , and Claude hated any public discussion of his personal affairs . He was ...