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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... night came on clear and cold . Before turning in Rusty stepped outside and looked around . The other boys were all in their bedrolls , and the light in the tent had been blown out so that even that pale human efflores- cence was gone ...
... night came on clear and cold . Before turning in Rusty stepped outside and looked around . The other boys were all in their bedrolls , and the light in the tent had been blown out so that even that pale human efflores- cence was gone ...
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... night herd was meant seriously , even soberly , even ritually , for he felt in every deceptive snow - shadow and every pulse of the Northern Lights and every movement of the night wind the pres- ence of something ancient and terrible ...
... night herd was meant seriously , even soberly , even ritually , for he felt in every deceptive snow - shadow and every pulse of the Northern Lights and every movement of the night wind the pres- ence of something ancient and terrible ...
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... night . The wolves ' hunting noises were always far off , back north in the river bottoms . In the eerie clarity of the white nights they seemed to cry from inexpressible distances , faint and musical and clear , and he might have been ...
... night . The wolves ' hunting noises were always far off , back north in the river bottoms . In the eerie clarity of the white nights they seemed to cry from inexpressible distances , faint and musical and clear , and he might have been ...
Conteúdo
I | 1 |
PREPARATION FOR A CIVILIZATION | 37 |
THE WHITEMUD RIVER RANGE | 125 |
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