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Fiction · 1919 · English

The Desert of Wheat

by Zane Grey

About this book

The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey explores world war, 1914-1918 — fiction, war stories.

From the opening pages: “These simple homes of farmers seemed lost on an immensity of soft gray and golden billows of land, insignificant dots here and there on distant hills, so far apart that nature only seemed accountable for those broad squares of alternate gold and brown, extending on and on to the waving horizon-line. A lonely, hard, heroic country, where flowers and fruit were not, nor birds and brooks, nor green pastures. Whirling strings of dust looped up over fallow ground, the short, dry wheat lay back from the wind, the haze in the distance was drab and smoky, heavy with…”

Author
Zane Grey
First published
1919
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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