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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... learned the feel , the smell , the taste of earth . That year and later I learned , hardly knowing I was learning it , how farm life is shaped by the land and the seasons - by what will grow and the days or weeks or months of growing ...
... learned the feel , the smell , the taste of earth . That year and later I learned , hardly knowing I was learning it , how farm life is shaped by the land and the seasons - by what will grow and the days or weeks or months of growing ...
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... learned to make , told me that I was going to be good in books . I was going to be a good scholar in school . " I wisht I'd a had the chance you'll have , " she said . She meant it . For the first time in her life she was living away ...
... learned to make , told me that I was going to be good in books . I was going to be a good scholar in school . " I wisht I'd a had the chance you'll have , " she said . She meant it . For the first time in her life she was living away ...
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... learned to say them in an Oklahoma schoolhouse . O young England ! Young England ! . . . Why don't you know more of your own birthplaces . . . All I say is , you don't know your own lanes and woods and fields . Though you may be ...
... learned to say them in an Oklahoma schoolhouse . O young England ! Young England ! . . . Why don't you know more of your own birthplaces . . . All I say is , you don't know your own lanes and woods and fields . Though you may be ...
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