In the post World War I era, Willa Cather's story of a Nebraska farmer's idealized departure to defend France met a mixed reception. By then, the romance had been taken out of the war, and Claude Wheeler's willingness to fight and die in a foreign country for ideals he can barely articulate created
One of Ours
โ Scribed by Willa Cather
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1443445711
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โฆ Synopsis
On the surface, Claude Wheeler appears to have a charmed life. The beloved child of a successful farmer and his wife, Claude attends an exclusive college and marries a childhood friend, but nevertheless struggles to find his purpose for living. It is only after he departs for the battlefields of Europe, that Claude is able to find what had eluded him for so long.
Willa Cather's One of Ours won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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