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 28
... seen the stacks and pilot houses moving along the sky sixty feet above their heads . But they listened , and soon even those who like the taller convict had probably never before seen more water than a horse pond would hold knew what ...
... seen the stacks and pilot houses moving along the sky sixty feet above their heads . But they listened , and soon even those who like the taller convict had probably never before seen more water than a horse pond would hold knew what ...
Pàgina 159
... seen , apparently had no boundaries . Wild and invisible , it tossed and heaved about and be- neath the boat , ridged with dirty phosphorescent foam and filled with a debris of destruction - objects name- less and enormous and invisible ...
... seen , apparently had no boundaries . Wild and invisible , it tossed and heaved about and be- neath the boat , ridged with dirty phosphorescent foam and filled with a debris of destruction - objects name- less and enormous and invisible ...
Pàgina 274
... seen before and whose race he did recognise even though he had not seen Vicksburg when he passed it— the brand , the unmistakable hallmark of the violently homeless , he more so than any , who would have per- mitted no man to call him ...
... seen before and whose race he did recognise even though he had not seen Vicksburg when he passed it— the brand , the unmistakable hallmark of the violently homeless , he more so than any , who would have per- mitted no man to call him ...
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