One of ours
Although the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of idealism. In One of Ours, Willa Cather explores the dissonance between Claudеѫs attitudes and his physical reality and studies how this conflict affects him. Drawing on her own familуѫs experience of the war through her cousin G.P. Cather, who fought in World War I, Cather observes how an otherwise misdirected young man could find purpose and meaning in war and how his death would affect his familуѫs memories of him. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, One of Ours paints Claude as a young man who seeks an escape from a conventional and unfulfilling life through the realization of أsomething splendidؤ in his military experience in Europe. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition puts One of Ours in a new and revealing context. The novel is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2006
War stories
xii, 866 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780803214316, 0803214316
66463604
Introduction
Historical apparatus
historical essay
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual essay
Emendations
Notes on emendations
Table of rejected substantives
World division