https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/ Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The ete... en https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/4/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/4/ IT is sixteen years since John Bergson died. His wife now lies beside him, and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams across the wheat-fields. Could he rise from beneath... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/3/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/3/ One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/6/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/6/ The French Church, properly the Church of Sainte-Agnes, stood upon a hill. The high, narrow, red-brick building, with its tall steeple and steep roof, could be seen for miles ac... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/7/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/7/ Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm. It was only five o’clock of a mid-October... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/5/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/5/ Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring.... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/2/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/2/ Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing wee... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/1/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/o-pioneers-24/chapters/1/ 12 words