One of Ours

Willa Cather

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A sensitive, idealistic Nebraska farm boy, stifled on every side by a coarse world with no place for his hunger for beauty and meaning, finds the splendour and purpose he could never find at home only in the crucible of the First World War, and dies believing. Cather's Pulitzer-winning novel.

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