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I had a variety of jobs, including secretary, trainee buyer at Harrods, dental nurse, production assistant in a reprographic and printing company and various others. I’ve been a writer for over 15 years now, but it wasn’t planned! ![]() ![]() ![]() Ing wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy In the landscape in the fresh, easy-blowing morn. ![]() With me, for more than anything else I felt motion To me as I walked beside my grandmother along theįaint wagon-tracks on that early September morning.ġ5Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still I can remember exactly how the country looked Grain-sack in her hand, and asked me if I did notġ0want to go to the garden with her to dig potatoes When she came out, her sunbonnet on her head, a ![]() I had almost forgotten that I had a grandmother, And there was so much motion in it the whole Or of certain seaweeds when they are first washedĠ5up. Made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, On his first Nebraska morning, he goes outdoors to observe the landscape.Īs I looked about me I felt that the grass was theĬountry, as the water is the sea. In this excerpt, the boy narrator, Jim Burden, has traveled from Virginia to his grandparents' Nebraska farm to spend the rest of his childhood there. The following passage is adapted from Willa Cather's 1918 novel My ántonia. See All test questions More SAT Reading Tests ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Violet's wits may protect her in the cutthroat court, but they can't change her fate. Violet faces her own choice: Seize an opportunity to gain control of her own destiny, no matter the cost, or give in to the ill-fated attraction that's growing between her and Cyrus. 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When he was just out of law school, Brad Meltzer quickly joined the ranks of John Grisham and Scott Turow with his nail-biting debut thriller, The Tenth Justice. ![]() |