One of Ours
- ISBN-10
- 0394439252
- ISBN-13
- 9780394439259
- Series
- One of Ours
- Category
- Fiction / Literary
- Pages
- 459
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1922
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Author
- Willa Cather
Description
Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive
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