One of Ours

One of Ours is a novel written by Willa Cather and published in 1922. The book tells the story of Claude Wheeler, a young man growing up in a small town in Nebraska during the early 20th century. Claude is restless and dissatisfied with his life, feeling trapped by the expectations of his family and community. When World War I breaks out, Claude sees an opportunity to escape and enlists in the army. He is sent to France, where he experiences the horrors of war firsthand. Despite the dangers and hardships he faces, Claude finds a sense of purpose and belonging in the military, and he becomes deeply committed to his fellow soldiers and the cause for which they are fighting. However, when he is wounded and sent home, Claude struggles to readjust to civilian life and find meaning in his existence once again. One of Ours is a powerful and poignant exploration of the human experience, and it remains a classic of American literature 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.