The Wild PalmsVintage Books, 1964 - 339 pàgines 'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.-Publisher's description. |
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Pàgina 69
... heard the air hiss out of the released brakes , the engine whistled four blasts , the car came into motion with a snapping jerk ; the platform , the compress fled violently as the train seemed to transpose from immobility to full speed ...
... heard the air hiss out of the released brakes , the engine whistled four blasts , the car came into motion with a snapping jerk ; the platform , the compress fled violently as the train seemed to transpose from immobility to full speed ...
Pàgina 175
... heard the sound which he knew well ( he had heard it but once before , true enough , but no man needed hear it but once ) and he had been expecting it ; he looked back , still driving the paddle , and saw it , curled , crested with its ...
... heard the sound which he knew well ( he had heard it but once before , true enough , but no man needed hear it but once ) and he had been expecting it ; he looked back , still driving the paddle , and saw it , curled , crested with its ...
Pàgina 318
... heard it from behind him — the long expulsion , the sigh . “ Is the accused trying to throw himself upon the mercy of this Court ? ” the judge said . “ I just plead guilty , Your Honor , ” Wilbourne said . He heard it again behind him ...
... heard it from behind him — the long expulsion , the sigh . “ Is the accused trying to throw himself upon the mercy of this Court ? ” the judge said . “ I just plead guilty , Your Honor , ” Wilbourne said . He heard it again behind him ...
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