One of Ours
Written by Willa Sibert Cather
Narrated by LibriVox Community
4/5
()
About this audiobook
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose with his life. Everything he does seems to turn out wrong, at least in his own mind. Although he is a skilled farmer, Claude believes his destiny lies elsewhere. While attending a church-affiliated college his parents have selected for him, he befriends a German family (the Ehrlichs’) who open his eyes to other possibilities in life. When Claude’s father expands the Wheeler farming interests, Claude must leave college to return to his roots and operate the Wheeler farm. During this period, he marries a childhood friend, Enid, in what turns out to be a marriage of convenience rather than love. Enid tries to convert her new husband to her many other causes such as Prohibition in Nebraska. Eventually, Enid leaves Claude to care for her missionary sister who is ill in China, and Claude is somewhat relieved to see her go. During this period, Europe is ablaze with World War I. Claude and his mother fervently follow the events. Claude eventually enlists in the American Expeditionary Forces, becomes an officer, and travels to France to fight for the cause. Finally believing he has found purpose in his life, Claude revels in his new freedom and responsibilities. Despite an influenza epidemic and the continuing hardships of the battlefield, Claude has never felt as though he mattered more. His pursuit of vague notions of purpose and principle culminate in a ferocious front-line encounter with an overwhelming German onslaught. (Summary by Tom Weiss and Wikipedia)
Willa Sibert Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[2] – April 24, 1947 was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. (Wikipedia)
More audiobooks from Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5O Pioneers! Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alexander's Bridge (version 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYouth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlexander's Bridge (version 3) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5O Pioneers! (version 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Ántonia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Lark Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to One of Ours
Related audiobooks
His Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dubliners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Lark Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Ántonia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buttered Side Down Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Shipping News Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice Adams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ethan Frome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adam Bede Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Ántonia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5O Pioneers! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Enormous Radio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daniel Deronda Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plainsong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Innocence (Librovox) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radetzky March Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Portrait of a Lady Vol 1 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ahab's Wife Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fanny Herself Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of Ours Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wind in the Willows (version 2) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I Read Books" Essay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pearl of Orr's Island Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cider House Rules Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moon and Sixpence (version 2) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Middlemarch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Swimmer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shipping News Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Lark Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
War & Military Fiction For You
The Rose Code: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For Whom the Bell Tolls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Lost Names Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Alice Network: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Winemaker's Wife Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Quiet on the Western Front Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unfinished Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Burned Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Minor Detail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Johnny Got His Gun Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Naked and the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ranger Objective: An American Mercenary Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archipelago of Another Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magic of Ordinary Days: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mountains Sing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Space Between: An Outlander Novella Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Escape from Baghdad! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Militia House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beantown Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Visitors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Room on Rue Amélie Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Custom of the Army: An Outlander Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for One of Ours
7 ratings0 reviews