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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... wanted to help . They wanted her to sell the land and give the children away . They wanted to take the children , in a kind of dividing up among them . When she told them that she wanted to hold the land and keep the children to- gether ...
... wanted to help . They wanted her to sell the land and give the children away . They wanted to take the children , in a kind of dividing up among them . When she told them that she wanted to hold the land and keep the children to- gether ...
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... wanted you to see the foolishness of it . " My grandmother did , but my mother wanted to know more about the book . They knew it was called Tom Brown's School Days , but they had never read past the part they had memorized . When they ...
... wanted you to see the foolishness of it . " My grandmother did , but my mother wanted to know more about the book . They knew it was called Tom Brown's School Days , but they had never read past the part they had memorized . When they ...
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... wanted to be left out of the program . I did not . When the time came for practicing singing , I was at the front of the room with the others , singing as loud as I could : Heap high the framer's wintry hoard , Heap high the golden corn ...
... wanted to be left out of the program . I did not . When the time came for practicing singing , I was at the front of the room with the others , singing as loud as I could : Heap high the framer's wintry hoard , Heap high the golden corn ...
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