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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... knew it was called Tom Brown's School Days , but they had never read past the part they had memorized . When they quit school , they left the book behind , and we would never know what happened to Tom Brown and the other Browns . Aunt ...
... knew it was called Tom Brown's School Days , but they had never read past the part they had memorized . When they quit school , they left the book behind , and we would never know what happened to Tom Brown and the other Browns . Aunt ...
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... knew they would not carry . After I had asked , I stood around the stove , where there were men sitting on nail kegs whittling . No need get- ting back before books . While I was waiting , Mr. Jessee came in for a tablet and pencil . He ...
... knew they would not carry . After I had asked , I stood around the stove , where there were men sitting on nail kegs whittling . No need get- ting back before books . While I was waiting , Mr. Jessee came in for a tablet and pencil . He ...
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... knew I was as much alone in Dallas as I had ever been at Pin Hook . My grandmother had gone back home . Aunt Vick never really knew me . Maggie and I could never go anywhere together because one of us had to stay with her . I tried ...
... knew I was as much alone in Dallas as I had ever been at Pin Hook . My grandmother had gone back home . Aunt Vick never really knew me . Maggie and I could never go anywhere together because one of us had to stay with her . I tried ...
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