One of Ourse-artnow, 04.01.2022 - 385 Seiten Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. |
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... told you a joke on Bayliss?" "I expect I would." Claude's tone was not at all eager. "You saw Bayliss today? Notice anything queer about him, one eye a little off colour? Did he tell you how he got it?" "No. I didn't ask him." "Just as ...
... told you a joke on Bayliss?" "I expect I would." Claude's tone was not at all eager. "You saw Bayliss today? Notice anything queer about him, one eye a little off colour? Did he tell you how he got it?" "No. I didn't ask him." "Just as ...
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... told his mother to go upstairs and dress; he would scald the separator while Ralph got the car ready. He was still working at it when his brother came in from the garage to wash his hands. "You really oughtn't to load mother up with ...
... told his mother to go upstairs and dress; he would scald the separator while Ralph got the car ready. He was still working at it when his brother came in from the garage to wash his hands. "You really oughtn't to load mother up with ...
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... told Mahailey he was going to the cellar to put up the swinging shelf she had been wanting, so that the rats couldn't get at her vegetables. "Thank you, Mr. Claude. I don't know what does make the rats so bad. The cats catches one most ...
... told Mahailey he was going to the cellar to put up the swinging shelf she had been wanting, so that the rats couldn't get at her vegetables. "Thank you, Mr. Claude. I don't know what does make the rats so bad. The cats catches one most ...
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... told her many enlightening facts. But she was so trusting and childlike, so faithful by nature and so ignorant of life as he knew it, that it was hopeless to argue with her. He could shock her and make her fear the world even more than ...
... told her many enlightening facts. But she was so trusting and childlike, so faithful by nature and so ignorant of life as he knew it, that it was hopeless to argue with her. He could shock her and make her fear the world even more than ...
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... told himself, he could take up and fight for it. He could not assert himself against his father or mother, but he could be bold enough with the rest of the world. Yet, if this were true, why did he continue to live with the tiresome ...
... told himself, he could take up and fight for it. He could not assert himself against his father or mother, but he could be bold enough with the rest of the world. Yet, if this were true, why did he continue to live with the tiresome ...
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Sunrise on the Prairie | |
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The Voyage of the Anchises | |
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Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly | |
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