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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... brothers started the first Monday after we were in the new place , the three of them taking shortcuts across the field , with dinner buckets in their hands and money for books and tablets and pencils in their pockets . I was left behind ...
... brothers started the first Monday after we were in the new place , the three of them taking shortcuts across the field , with dinner buckets in their hands and money for books and tablets and pencils in their pockets . I was left behind ...
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... brother's headed for the dinner on the ground , " my brothers said . The schoolhouse looked the same , but not the school ground . Wagons were lined up all around the edge , the teams unhitched but still in harness . A long table had ...
... brother's headed for the dinner on the ground , " my brothers said . The schoolhouse looked the same , but not the school ground . Wagons were lined up all around the edge , the teams unhitched but still in harness . A long table had ...
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... Brother Cummings would do the preaching , and only at night . It was too hot and dusty for people to come out in the ... brothers said . " He'll know it'll be slim pickings . He'll know to set his feet under a stronger table . He knows ...
... Brother Cummings would do the preaching , and only at night . It was too hot and dusty for people to come out in the ... brothers said . " He'll know it'll be slim pickings . He'll know to set his feet under a stronger table . He knows ...
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