One of Ours

One of Ours is a novel written by Willa Cather and published in 1922. The story revolves around Claude Wheeler, a young man from a rural Nebraska town who feels restless and unfulfilled in his life. Despite his parents' objections, he enlists in the army during World War I, hoping to find meaning and purpose in his life.Claude's experiences in the army are both challenging and transformative. He encounters a diverse group of people and learns to navigate the complexities of military life. He also falls in love with a French woman named Vivienne, who helps him to see the beauty and value of life.As the war continues, Claude's experiences become increasingly harrowing. He witnesses the horrors of battle and struggles to reconcile his idealistic beliefs with the brutal reality of war. Ultimately, he is forced to confront his own mortality and the meaning of his life.One of Ours is a powerful exploration of the human experience, particularly in times of war. It is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that continues to resonate with readers today.1922. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a midwestern American's journey to the front of World War I. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life. In One of Ours Willa Cather explores the destiny of a grandchild of the pioneers, a young Nebraskan whose yearnings impel him toward a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one that vanished before his birth. In doing so, she creates a canny and extraordinarily vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.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.