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 19
... knew better and knew that his wife knew better . Because this was it , this the anger and outrage which would alternate with the despair tomorrow and tomorrow : Why did you have to tell me ? he thought . The others didn't tell me ...
... knew better and knew that his wife knew better . Because this was it , this the anger and outrage which would alternate with the despair tomorrow and tomorrow : Why did you have to tell me ? he thought . The others didn't tell me ...
Pàgina 165
... knew that his hearers , the other convicts , re- quired none from him , but rather as , on the point of exhaustion , he might have picked dreamily and in- credulously at a ... knew and respected as he knew and respected OLD MAN 165.
... knew that his hearers , the other convicts , re- quired none from him , but rather as , on the point of exhaustion , he might have picked dreamily and in- credulously at a ... knew and respected as he knew and respected OLD MAN 165.
Pàgina 166
William Faulkner. acters he knew and respected as he knew and respected the characters of certain men ; he thought of the bar- racks at night , with screens against the bugs in summer and good stoves in winter and someone to supply the ...
William Faulkner. acters he knew and respected as he knew and respected the characters of certain men ; he thought of the bar- racks at night , with screens against the bugs in summer and good stoves in winter and someone to supply the ...
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