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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... woman . Anyhow , there's no point in 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 ...
... woman. If an attractive woman got into the street car when he was on his way to or from Temple Place, he was distracted between the desire to look at her and the wish.
... woman with a frizzed bang, always remembered him from trip to trip. While he was eating his oysters she told him that she had just finished roasting a chicken with sweet potatoes, and if he liked he could have the first brown cut off ...
... woman in full vigour . Das ist ein Kreuz ich trage ! " She smote her bosom , on the left side . Having put on first a velvet coat , then a fur mantle , Madame Schroeder - Schatz moved like a galleon out into the living room and kissed ...
... woman , Evangeline , just like a a woman ! " Mr. Wheeler replied indulgently . He was sitting in the full glare of the acetylene lamp , his neckband open , his collar and tie on the table beside him , fanning himself with a palm - leaf ...