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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... stopped ; the singing stopped . My mother and grandmother knelt with the people struggling at the mourner's bench . Aunt Nellie came at the end of the meeting , in the wagon with her girls . We knew she was coming . She had sent word ...
... stopped ; the singing stopped . My mother and grandmother knelt with the people struggling at the mourner's bench . Aunt Nellie came at the end of the meeting , in the wagon with her girls . We knew she was coming . She had sent word ...
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... stopped at the front gate and Monroe got out to open it . It was a wide , heavy gate made of oak timbers fourteen feet long and an inch thick . We had passed through the gate and closed it behind us when the front door opened and Aunt ...
... stopped at the front gate and Monroe got out to open it . It was a wide , heavy gate made of oak timbers fourteen feet long and an inch thick . We had passed through the gate and closed it behind us when the front door opened and Aunt ...
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... stopped , or we thought it stopped . It had been in our ears so long we could not tell . Then the wagon stopped and there was nothing for us to do but go inside and wait by the fire for Monroe to come back . When he came , his face was ...
... stopped , or we thought it stopped . It had been in our ears so long we could not tell . Then the wagon stopped and there was nothing for us to do but go inside and wait by the fire for Monroe to come back . When he came , his face was ...
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