📱 eBook en inglés ONE OF OURS (SUMMARIZED EDITION)

One of Ours (1922) traces Claude Wheeler, a discontented Nebraska farm heir whose thwarted idealism, sterile marriage, and drift toward World War I culminate in a paradoxical discovery of purpose. Cathers lyrical realism—luminous prairies, impressionistic troopships and French fields, supple free indirect narration—sets the American pastoral against mechanized war, situating the novel within postwar debates over authenticity and belief. It won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. Cather—Virginia-born, raised on the Great Plains—brought to this book a lifelong inquiry into vocation and belonging among immigrant and rural communities. The death of a cousin in France and his letters supplied the germ; she later visited battlefields and read soldiers accounts, aiming less at reportage than at moral atmosphere, in a classical, cadenced prose resistant to fashionable experimentalism. Readers of American regional writing and Great War narratives will find One of Ours a bracing meditation on youth, faith, and belonging. Assign it alongside My Ántonia or A Farewell to Arms to triangulate the era; it rewards with moral seriousness, piercing sympathy, and quietly indelible scenes.
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