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O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

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Summary

An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy self-satisfied people, the younger one was a spoiled egoist, and she devoted her whole life to making sure they had a good life. I thought only about crops, livestock and land plots, but I didn’t think about myself – for the time being
Available since: 03/08/2022.
Print length: 173 pages.

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