Opie Read: 19 books
by Opie Percival Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
LOOKING BACK AT EARLY LIFE. When the slow years of youth were gone and the hastening time of manhood had come, the first thing that Henry DeGolyer, looking back, could call from a mysterious darkness into the dawn of memory was that he awoke one night in the cold arms of his dead mOther. That was in...
by Opie Percival Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In his mind the traveler holds of Illinois a tiresome picture, the kitchen garden of a great people, a flat and unromantic necessity. The greatest of men have trod the level ground, but it is hard to mark history upon a plane; there is no rugged place on which to hang a wreath, and on the prairie the...
by Opie Percival Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The neighbors and our family began to laugh at me about as far back as I can remember, and I think that the first serious remark my father ever addressed to me was, "Bill, you are too lazy to amount to anything in this life, so I reckon we'll have to make a school teacher of you." I don't...
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