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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... face, to shut out the light which was beginning to come through the curtainless windows. Claude rose and dressed,—a simple operation which took very little time. He crept down two flights of stairs, feeling his way in the dusk, his red ...
... face, to shut out the light which was beginning to come through the curtainless windows. Claude rose and dressed,—a simple operation which took very little time. He crept down two flights of stairs, feeling his way in the dusk, his red ...
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... face was clean shaven, likely to be a trifle tobacco- stained about the mouth, and it was conspicuous both for good- nature and coarse humour, and for an imperturbable physical composure. Nobody in the county had ever seen Nat Wheeler ...
... face was clean shaven, likely to be a trifle tobacco- stained about the mouth, and it was conspicuous both for good- nature and coarse humour, and for an imperturbable physical composure. Nobody in the county had ever seen Nat Wheeler ...
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... face, but he wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of 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 ...
... face, but he wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of 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 ...
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... face. He felt he had now closed the door on his disagreeable morning. Ernest produced his lunch basket. "I got a couple bottles of beer cooling in the creek," he said. "I knew you wouldn't want to go in a saloon." "Oh, forget it ...
... face. He felt he had now closed the door on his disagreeable morning. Ernest produced his lunch basket. "I got a couple bottles of beer cooling in the creek," he said. "I knew you wouldn't want to go in a saloon." "Oh, forget it ...
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... face. He was exactly the sort of looking boy he didn't want to be. He especially hated his head,—so big that he had trouble in buying his hats, and uncompromisingly square in shape; a perfect block-head. His name was another source of ...
... face. He was exactly the sort of looking boy he didn't want to be. He especially hated his head,—so big that he had trouble in buying his hats, and uncompromisingly square in shape; a perfect block-head. His name was another source of ...
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