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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Cather, Willa

Cather, Willa
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"One Of Ours"

Willa Cather received the Pulitzer Prize, in 1922, for One of Ours.

The Nebraska of One of Ours is a land of replaceable parts; a land where
orchards seem a waste of time, when it is just as easy to go into town for
fresh fruits. The people have lost touch with the land; they have become
materialistic. Machines have brought about these changes. Machines also bring
about an important change in Claude's life. When a passing truck frightens
Claude's mules, he loses control of them and is thrown into barbed-wire. While
he is recovering, Enid ...

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