This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... began moving away . Then we heard a tune like the crying of a lost child or a hurt animal above the low rolling thunder . It was enough to make my throat hurt and tears come to my eyes . I looked at my mother and brothers . Their faces ...
... began moving away . Then we heard a tune like the crying of a lost child or a hurt animal above the low rolling thunder . It was enough to make my throat hurt and tears come to my eyes . I looked at my mother and brothers . Their faces ...
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... began working late most nights in the week . Still we could not keep up with the orders . With every mail they came like leaves . New pickers and checkers came to work . Other stock boys unpacked boxes for me . I went at a trot pushing ...
... began working late most nights in the week . Still we could not keep up with the orders . With every mail they came like leaves . New pickers and checkers came to work . Other stock boys unpacked boxes for me . I went at a trot pushing ...
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... began reading and everybody began laughing as each mis- take I had made seemed worse than the one before it . It was not only corset for princess slip , I had substituted nightgowns for bloom- ers , long drawers for vests , and cotton ...
... began reading and everybody began laughing as each mis- take I had made seemed worse than the one before it . It was not only corset for princess slip , I had substituted nightgowns for bloom- ers , long drawers for vests , and cotton ...
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