1918 novel by willa cather5/24/2023 ![]() Poor woman she had to get her war experience somewhere.” ( Quoted by John J. I identified episode after episode, Catherized. ![]() You were in the war weren’t you? Wasn’t that last scene in the lines wonderful? Do you know where it came from? The battle scene in Birth of a Nation. The great Ernest Hemingway did not like it: “Look at One of Ours,” he wrote, complaining about the frivolity of the American reading public, “ Prize, big sale, people taking it seriously. The early reviews of Willa Cather’s One Of Ours were negative. How long would their bodies toss, he wondered, in that inhuman kingdom of darkness and unrest? Willa Cather, One Of Ours For them this kind release,-trees and a still shore and quiet water,-was never, never to be. They were merely waste in a great enterprise, thrown overboard like rotten ropes. ![]() It was the reason why Tannhauser and the gentle Virginian, and so many others who had set out with him, were never to have any life at all, or even a soldier’s death. ![]() It was the reason for everything that had happened in his life for the last fifteen months. This grey wall, unshaken, mighty, was the end of the long preparation, as it was the end of the sea. Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale Rider ![]() Previously Discussed Literature On The 1918 Pandemic ![]()
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