The Wild PalmsRandom House, 1939 - 337 pàgines In the rural wasteland of the South two inmates escape from a penitentiary, and two lovers, Harry Wilbourne and Charlotte Rittenmeyer, run away together. These two stories, played against each other, portray four desperate people trying to flee from poverty, decadence, and the violence of a world from which there is no escape. |
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Pàgina 38
... completely without curiosity because it was completely without belief , as a yokel might look at a drawing of a dinosaur . But now the yokel was looking at the monster itself and Wilbourne stood before the paintings in complete ab ...
... completely without curiosity because it was completely without belief , as a yokel might look at a drawing of a dinosaur . But now the yokel was looking at the monster itself and Wilbourne stood before the paintings in complete ab ...
Pàgina 320
... completely , completely watchful , completely alert , the thinking going fast and secret be- hind it . The judge looked at the young lawyer , the plump one , hard . Then he looked at Rittenmeyer . " This case is closed , " he said ...
... completely , completely watchful , completely alert , the thinking going fast and secret be- hind it . The judge looked at the young lawyer , the plump one , hard . Then he looked at Rittenmeyer . " This case is closed , " he said ...
Pàgina 323
... dust and old spittle and caked creosote until it had completely vanished and burned the cigarette paper and returned to the window . It was there , waiting , it was all right ; it would stand to his hand when the WILD PALMS 323.
... dust and old spittle and caked creosote until it had completely vanished and burned the cigarette paper and returned to the window . It was there , waiting , it was all right ; it would stand to his hand when the WILD PALMS 323.
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