6/29/2023 0 Comments One of ours by willa cather![]() ![]() However, the Pulitzer committee considered it the greatest novel of the year, and this accessible, dramatic novel sold many more copies than Cather’s more famous ones, O, Pioneers! and My Antonia. Mencken said it “drops to the level of a serial in The Lady’s Home Journal, fought out not in France, but on a Hollywood movie-lot,” and Ernest Hemingway panned Cather for not having experienced the front-line herself. One of Ours was considered a failure by some male critics of the day: H. When America joins the Great War, Claude decides to enlist, where he finds excitement and fulfillment-as well as tragedy-on the battlefield. ![]() ![]() As a young man, Claude is dissatisfied with Nebraska farm as well as his marriage to a childhood friend, desperate for a more cosmopolitan life. The tale follows the ups and downs of the. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, One of Ours is the story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a Nebraska farmer. This groundbreaking novel from acclaimed American writer Willa Cather was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. ![]()
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