Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains FrontierViking Press, 1962 - 306 páginas Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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... grass and grain . It has its remem- bered textures : winter wheat heavily headed , scoured and shad- owed as if schools of fish move in it ; spring wheat with its young seed - rows as precise as combings in a boy's wet hair ; gray ...
... grass and grain . It has its remem- bered textures : winter wheat heavily headed , scoured and shad- owed as if schools of fish move in it ; spring wheat with its young seed - rows as precise as combings in a boy's wet hair ; gray ...
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... grass , and whirlwinds had vacuum - cleaned them into shallow craters . This clay soil they would have found unbelievably sticky in the rain . The grass would have been the short curly variety , extraordinarily nourish- ing because it ...
... grass , and whirlwinds had vacuum - cleaned them into shallow craters . This clay soil they would have found unbelievably sticky in the rain . The grass would have been the short curly variety , extraordinarily nourish- ing because it ...
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... grass at the level of my squinted eyes was strained out straight and whistling . I popped my head into my arms and fitted my body to the earth . To give the wind more than my flat back , I felt , would be sure destruction , for that was ...
... grass at the level of my squinted eyes was strained out straight and whistling . I popped my head into my arms and fitted my body to the earth . To give the wind more than my flat back , I felt , would be sure destruction , for that was ...
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I | 1 |
PREPARATION FOR A CIVILIZATION | 37 |
THE WHITEMUD RIVER RANGE | 125 |
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