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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... tell you how he got it ? " " No. I didn't ask him . " " Just as well . A lot of people did ask him , though , and he said he was hunting around his place for something in the dark and ran into a reaper . Well , I'm the reaper ! " Claude ...
... not able to account for the difference . After he pulled the second lever with some disgust and let the car amble on as she would , he noticed that his companion was disconcerted . " I'll tell you what , Leonard , ” Claude.
Willa Cather. " I'll tell you what , Leonard , ” Claude spoke in a strained voice , " I think the fair thing for you to do is to get out here by the road and give me a chance . " Leonard swung his steering wheel savagely to pass a wagon ...
... tell her about the clown elephant and the trained dogs, and she sat listening to him with her pleased, foolish smile; there was something wise and farseeing about her smile, too. Mahailey had come to them long ago, when Claude was only ...
... tell Claude a long story about how this brilliant young man had come to Lincoln and met this beautiful young girl, who was already engaged to a cold and academic youth, and how after many heartburnings the beautiful girl had broken with ...