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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... father always managed to have the roughest and dirtiest hired men in the country working for him. Claude had a grievance against Jerry just now, because of his treatment of one of the horses. Molly was a faithful old mare, the mother of ...
... father always managed to have the roughest and dirtiest hired men in the country working for him. Claude had a grievance against Jerry just now, because of his treatment of one of the horses. Molly was a faithful old mare, the mother of ...
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... father knew he hated to drive the mules to town, and knew how he hated to go anywhere with Dan and Jerry. As for the hides, they were the skins of four steers that had perished in the blizzard last winter through the wanton carelessness ...
... father knew he hated to drive the mules to town, and knew how he hated to go anywhere with Dan and Jerry. As for the hides, they were the skins of four steers that had perished in the blizzard last winter through the wanton carelessness ...
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... father had looked out of the window and seen him washing the car, and had put this up on him while he dressed. It was like his father's idea of a joke. Mrs. Wheeler looked at Claude sympathetically, feeling that he was disappointed ...
... father had looked out of the window and seen him washing the car, and had put this up on him while he dressed. It was like his father's idea of a joke. Mrs. Wheeler looked at Claude sympathetically, feeling that he was disappointed ...
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... father could go off to conventions together and have a good time, since their ideas of what made a good time were so different. Once every few years, Mr. Wheeler bought a new suit and a dozen stiff shirts and went back to Maine to visit ...
... father could go off to conventions together and have a good time, since their ideas of what made a good time were so different. Once every few years, Mr. Wheeler bought a new suit and a dozen stiff shirts and went back to Maine to visit ...
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... father . He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter , but he never laughed immoderately himself . In telling stories about him , people often tried to imitate his smooth , senatorial voice , robust but never loud . Even when he was ...
... father . He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter , but he never laughed immoderately himself . In telling stories about him , people often tried to imitate his smooth , senatorial voice , robust but never loud . Even when he was ...
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