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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... stood kicking at a bunch of mottled feathers that had 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 ...
... stood kicking at a bunch of mottled feathers that had 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 ...
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... stood with their heads over the wagon-box, munching their oats. The stream trickled by under the willow roots with a cool, persuasive sound. Claude and Ernest lay in the shade , their coats under their heads , talking very.
... stood with their heads over the wagon-box, munching their oats. The stream trickled by under the willow roots with a cool, persuasive sound. Claude and Ernest lay in the shade , their coats under their heads , talking very.
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... stood in the doorway , blinking his eyes at the light , looking astonished but eager to do whatever was required of him . What if one of her own boys , Mrs. Wheeler thought ... . She went up to him and put her arm around him , laughing ...
... stood in the doorway , blinking his eyes at the light , looking astonished but eager to do whatever was required of him . What if one of her own boys , Mrs. Wheeler thought ... . She went up to him and put her arm around him , laughing ...
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... stood there getting redder and redder, and his eyes watered. I don't say he cried, but his eyes watered. 'All right, Bayliss,' said I. 'Slow with your fists, if that's your principle; but slow with your tongue, too, —especially when the ...
... stood there getting redder and redder, and his eyes watered. I don't say he cried, but his eyes watered. 'All right, Bayliss,' said I. 'Slow with your fists, if that's your principle; but slow with your tongue, too, —especially when the ...
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... stood about him in the grey twilight; electric batteries, old bicycles and typewriters, a machine for making cement fence-posts, a vulcanizer, a stereopticon with a broken lens. The mechanical toys Ralph could not operate successfully ...
... stood about him in the grey twilight; electric batteries, old bicycles and typewriters, a machine for making cement fence-posts, a vulcanizer, a stereopticon with a broken lens. The mechanical toys Ralph could not operate successfully ...
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