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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... town sometime before the elephants get away." He spoke very deliberately, with a State-of- Maine drawl, and his voice was smooth and agreeable. "You boys better start in early, though. You can take the wagon and the mules, and load in ...
... town sometime before the elephants get away." He spoke very deliberately, with a State-of- Maine drawl, and his voice was smooth and agreeable. "You boys better start in early, though. You can take the wagon and the mules, and load in ...
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... town to be dressed?" She was still blinking up at him. "Don't bother about it. Put me out a clean coloured shirt, if you want to. That's all right." He turned toward the barn, and his mother went slowly back the path up to the house ...
... town to be dressed?" She was still blinking up at him. "Don't bother about it. Put me out a clean coloured shirt, if you want to. That's all right." He turned toward the barn, and his mother went slowly back the path up to the house ...
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... towns about the county missed him if he didn't drop in once a week or so. He was active in politics; never ran for an office himself, but often took up the cause of a friend and conducted his campaign for him. The French saying, "Joy of ...
... towns about the county missed him if he didn't drop in once a week or so. He was active in politics; never ran for an office himself, but often took up the cause of a friend and conducted his campaign for him. The French saying, "Joy of ...
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... town to see Bayliss several times a week, went to sales and stock exhibits with him, and sat about his store for hours at a stretch, joking with the farmers who came in. Wheeler had been a heavy drinker in his day, and was still a heavy ...
... town to see Bayliss several times a week, went to sales and stock exhibits with him, and sat about his store for hours at a stretch, joking with the farmers who came in. Wheeler had been a heavy drinker in his day, and was still a heavy ...
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... town; but he was sober and thoughtful beyond the wont of young men. From Bayliss' drawl one might have supposed that the boy was a drunken loafer. At that very moment Claude saw his friend on the other side of the street, following the ...
... town; but he was sober and thoughtful beyond the wont of young men. From Bayliss' drawl one might have supposed that the boy was a drunken loafer. At that very moment Claude saw his friend on the other side of the street, following the ...
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afternoon ain't Americans Anchises asked Bayliss began boys breakfast brother buckboard called Cantigny cellar Chapter cigar Claude thought Claude took Claude's Colonel creek Crystal Lake dark David doctor door Enid Enid's Erlich Ernest everything eyes face Fanning farm Farmer father feeling fellow felt fields France Frankfort Frankfort High School French garden Gerhardt German girl Gladys guess hand head Hicks hill Joubert Kansas band kitchen knew laughed Leonard Lieutenant light live looked Madame Mahailey Marne mind morning mother neighbours never night officers Pal Battalions Ralph rose Royce seemed shoulders sitting smiled soldiers steward stood stopped supper talk Tannhauser tell things told town trees turned Victor voice waiting walked watched wheatfields Wheeler Wheeler farm window woman wondered Yoeder young