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 50
... damned pauper , you transparent fool . It's money again . After you paid the hotel two dollars you should have sent your sister and got nothing for it , now you want to pay this cab with what you intended to take your other shirt out of ...
... damned pauper , you transparent fool . It's money again . After you paid the hotel two dollars you should have sent your sister and got nothing for it , now you want to pay this cab with what you intended to take your other shirt out of ...
Pàgina 220
... damned bastard , you damned damned damned- " She boiled the water herself and fetched out the meager instruments they had supplied him with in Chicago and which he had used but once , then lying on the bed she looked up at him . " It's ...
... damned bastard , you damned damned damned- " She boiled the water herself and fetched out the meager instruments they had supplied him with in Chicago and which he had used but once , then lying on the bed she looked up at him . " It's ...
Pàgina 323
... damned forever . The jailer appeared and opened the door . " I'm not doing it for you , " Rittenmeyer said . “ Get that out of your damned head . " Then he was gone , the door clashed ; and it was no flash of comprehension , it was too ...
... damned forever . The jailer appeared and opened the door . " I'm not doing it for you , " Rittenmeyer said . “ Get that out of your damned head . " Then he was gone , the door clashed ; and it was no flash of comprehension , it was too ...
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aint already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan cant carrying ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cottonfield cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hip boots hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move neath never niggers night nurses oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict quietly realised returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell smoke snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talking tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman wont