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One of Ours

Author
Willa Cather
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
298 pages
ISBN
9781910558577
Published
15 October 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Willa Cather
  • American novel
  • realism
  • naturalism
  • Great Plains
  • faming
  • art
  • awakening
  • thought provoking
  • social order

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Description

The novel follows life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native, searching for his purpose in life. We see Claude building friendships during his University years and these relationships interrupted when his father expands the family farm and Claude is obligated to leave university and operate part of the family farm. Once pinned to the farm, Claude marries Enid Royce, a childhood friend. His notions of love and marriage are quickly devastated. Finally we see Claude believing he has found a purpose in life beyond the drudgery of farming and marriage.

Author

Willa Cather was an American Pulitzer Prize winning author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia. Although Cather began her writing career as a journalist, she made a distinction between journalism, which she saw as being primarily informative, and literature, which she saw as an art form.

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