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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... 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 dark on a summer night, sat down on the sticky flypaper —he was not ...
... trying to get up a long , rough hill on high gear . Sometimes he could make that hill , and sometimes he couldn't , and he was not able to account for the difference . After he pulled the second lever with some disgust and let the car ...
... trying to be fine. In country schools there was always a redheaded, warty- handed, runny-nosed little boy who was called Claude. His good physique he took for granted; smooth, muscular arms and legs, and strong shoulders, a farmer boy ...
... trying to make machinists of Mahailey and mother . " Ralph lifted his eyebrows to excuse Claude's bluntness . “ See here , " he said persuasively , " don't you go encouraging her into thinking she can't change her ways . Mother's ...
... tried to 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.