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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... light of first dark . As we went we watched lights go on in stores and houses - not the orange - red light of coal oil lamps but the white light of clear electric bulbs . My mother walked straight ahead , across the tracks and dirt road ...
... light of first dark . As we went we watched lights go on in stores and houses - not the orange - red light of coal oil lamps but the white light of clear electric bulbs . My mother walked straight ahead , across the tracks and dirt road ...
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... light - blue striped shirt , looking ready to go to meeting . He had on a necktie that showed burnished purple and ... light of the coal oil flares , walking close together , smiling , their faces reddened by the red light . She had on a ...
... light - blue striped shirt , looking ready to go to meeting . He had on a necktie that showed burnished purple and ... light of the coal oil flares , walking close together , smiling , their faces reddened by the red light . She had on a ...
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... light shone at the level of the barbed - wire fence . Without thinking , I started toward it . I crossed the ice - covered ditch , climbed a frozen bank , and rolled under the fence . After crossing a narrow stretch of prairie I came to ...
... light shone at the level of the barbed - wire fence . Without thinking , I started toward it . I crossed the ice - covered ditch , climbed a frozen bank , and rolled under the fence . After crossing a narrow stretch of prairie I came to ...
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