One Of Ours

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Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014 - 470 Seiten
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1922. The book tells the story of Claude Wheeler, a young man from a rural Nebraska town who is searching for meaning and purpose in his life. Claude is dissatisfied with his mundane existence and feels trapped by his family's expectations and the constraints of his small town.As World War I breaks out, Claude sees an opportunity to escape his life and join the fight. He enlists in the army and is sent to France, where he experiences the horrors of war and the camaraderie of his fellow soldiers. Through his experiences, Claude begins to find a sense of purpose and meaning in his life.The novel explores themes of identity, belonging, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Cather's vivid descriptions of the Nebraska landscape and the battlefields of France provide a rich backdrop for the story. One of Ours won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923 and is considered one of Cather's most accomplished works.This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years.

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