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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... seen the other room I was on the road again , carrying a bucket in each hand , walking on the leaves at the side of ... seen the land and knew it would raise good crops . I had not seen much of anything but the long walk to and from the ...
... seen the other room I was on the road again , carrying a bucket in each hand , walking on the leaves at the side of ... seen the land and knew it would raise good crops . I had not seen much of anything but the long walk to and from the ...
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... seen a moving picture show ? " the same boy asked . I had never seen a moving picture show . Neither had anyone in my family . " No , I ain't never seen one . " " I seen one Saturday . It was so real you'd have to see it to believe it ...
... seen a moving picture show ? " the same boy asked . I had never seen a moving picture show . Neither had anyone in my family . " No , I ain't never seen one . " " I seen one Saturday . It was so real you'd have to see it to believe it ...
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... seen nothing like it till you seen a moving picture show . " With nothing to go on but what he told me , I saw what he had seen , and it became real for me . On my way home that day I thought about nothing but the moving picture show ...
... seen nothing like it till you seen a moving picture show . " With nothing to go on but what he told me , I saw what he had seen , and it became real for me . On my way home that day I thought about nothing but the moving picture show ...
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