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 259
... face wild and grimacing , the voice gobbling and high ; while the convict , holding his face carefully slanted so the blood would run free , looked at him with the cold intentness of a curator or custodian paused before one of his own ...
... face wild and grimacing , the voice gobbling and high ; while the convict , holding his face carefully slanted so the blood would run free , looked at him with the cold intentness of a curator or custodian paused before one of his own ...
Pàgina 317
... face and myopic eyes behind glasses , in a crumpled linen suit ) challenging monotonously but it just took twenty - two minutes , the judge sitting high behind a pine counter grained and stained to resemble mahogany with his face which ...
... face and myopic eyes behind glasses , in a crumpled linen suit ) challenging monotonously but it just took twenty - two minutes , the judge sitting high behind a pine counter grained and stained to resemble mahogany with his face which ...
Pàgina 320
... face now , 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 ...
... face now , 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 ...
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