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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... once been a young chicken. His shoulders were drawn high, his mother saw, and his figure suggested energy and determined self-control. "You needn't mind, mother." He spoke rapidly, muttering his words. "I'd better wear my old clothes if ...
... once been a young chicken. His shoulders were drawn high, his mother saw, and his figure suggested energy and determined self-control. "You needn't mind, mother." He spoke rapidly, muttering his words. "I'd better wear my old clothes if ...
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... once only the wind wrote its story. He had encouraged new settlers to take up homesteads, urged on courtships, lent young fellows the money to marry on, seen families grow and prosper; until he felt a little as if all this were his own ...
... once only the wind wrote its story. He had encouraged new settlers to take up homesteads, urged on courtships, lent young fellows the money to marry on, seen families grow and prosper; until he felt a little as if all this were his own ...
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... Once every few years, Mr. Wheeler bought a new suit and a dozen stiff shirts and went back to Maine to visit his brothers and sisters, who were very quiet, conventional people. But he was always glad to get home to his old clothes, his ...
... Once every few years, Mr. Wheeler bought a new suit and a dozen stiff shirts and went back to Maine to visit his brothers and sisters, who were very quiet, conventional people. But he was always glad to get home to his old clothes, his ...
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... once , as if he hadn't hitherto appreciated him . There was a large , loafing dignity about Claude's father . He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter , but he never laughed immoderately himself . In telling stories about him ...
... once , as if he hadn't hitherto appreciated him . There was a large , loafing dignity about Claude's father . He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter , but he never laughed immoderately himself . In telling stories about him ...
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... once . He was simple and direct . He had a number of impersonal preoccupations ; was interested in politics and history and in new inventions . Claude felt that his friend lived in an atmosphere of mental liberty to which he himself ...
... once . He was simple and direct . He had a number of impersonal preoccupations ; was interested in politics and history and in new inventions . Claude felt that his friend lived in an atmosphere of mental liberty to which he himself ...
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