One of OursPhoemixx Classics Ebooks, 26.09.2021 - 444 Seiten One of Ours Willa Cather - One of Ours is a 1922 novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise. |
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... asked him if he were going to the circus. Mr. Wheeler winked. "I shouldn't wonder if I happened in town sometime before the elephants get away." He spoke very deliberately, with a State-of- Maine drawl, and his voice was smooth and ...
... asked him if he were going to the circus. Mr. Wheeler winked. "I shouldn't wonder if I happened in town sometime before the elephants get away." He spoke very deliberately, with a State-of- Maine drawl, and his voice was smooth and ...
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... asking him how he had got a black eye. Ernest Havel was a Bohemian, and he usually drank a glass of beer when he came to town; but he was sober and thoughtful beyond the wont of young men. From Bayliss' drawl one might have supposed ...
... asking him how he had got a black eye. Ernest Havel was a Bohemian, and he usually drank a glass of beer when he came to town; but he was sober and thoughtful beyond the wont of young men. From Bayliss' drawl one might have supposed ...
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... asking his mother if she didn't want him to drive her to church in the car. "I'd like to go if I can get the work done in time," she said, doubtfully glancing at the clock. "Can't Mahailey tend to things for you this morning?" Mrs ...
... asking his mother if she didn't want him to drive her to church in the car. "I'd like to go if I can get the work done in time," she said, doubtfully glancing at the clock. "Can't Mahailey tend to things for you this morning?" Mrs ...
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... Asking her to bring it along , he waited , sitting on a stool , his boots on the lead - pipe foot - rest , his elbows on the shiny brown counter , staring at a pyramid of tough looking bun - sandwiches under a glass globe . " I been ...
... Asking her to bring it along , he waited , sitting on a stool , his boots on the lead - pipe foot - rest , his elbows on the shiny brown counter , staring at a pyramid of tough looking bun - sandwiches under a glass globe . " I been ...
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Willa Cather. her and asking what there was for dinner, and she ran about like an excited little hen, chuckling and cackling. Claude wondered whether working-men were as nice as that to old women the world over. He didn't believe so. He ...
Willa Cather. her and asking what there was for dinner, and she ran about like an excited little hen, chuckling and cackling. Claude wondered whether working-men were as nice as that to old women the world over. He didn't believe so. He ...
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