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 146
... skiff , and the object ( a clump of cypress trees choked by floating logs and debris ) which the skiff was now about to strike was the same one it had careened into before when the stern had struck him . He didn't know this because he ...
... skiff , and the object ( a clump of cypress trees choked by floating logs and debris ) which the skiff was now about to strike was the same one it had careened into before when the stern had struck him . He didn't know this because he ...
Pàgina 170
... skiff fled on among the bearded trees while every now and then small quiet tentative exploratory feelers would come up from the wave behind and toy for a moment at the skiff , light and curious , then go on with a faint hissing sighing ...
... skiff fled on among the bearded trees while every now and then small quiet tentative exploratory feelers would come up from the wave behind and toy for a moment at the skiff , light and curious , then go on with a faint hissing sighing ...
Pàgina 237
... skiff ( whether they were moving or not the convict did not know ) in its nimbus of fine cotton batting , the ... skiff within the next second ; suddenly , in the instant he would believe ( his whole weary body would spring and scream ) ...
... skiff ( whether they were moving or not the convict did not know ) in its nimbus of fine cotton batting , the ... skiff within the next second ; suddenly , in the instant he would believe ( his whole weary body would spring and scream ) ...
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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