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 148
William Faulkner. looked up and saw , sitting in a tree and looking at him , a woman . She was not ten feet away . She sat on the lowest limb of one of the trees holding the jam he had grounded on , in a calico wrapper and an army ...
William Faulkner. looked up and saw , sitting in a tree and looking at him , a woman . She was not ten feet away . She sat on the lowest limb of one of the trees holding the jam he had grounded on , in a calico wrapper and an army ...
Pàgina 151
... trees ; it began to flee beneath him with terrific speed , they were in an eddy but did not know it ; he had no time to draw conclusions or even wonder ; he crouched , his teeth bared in his blood - caked and swollen face , his lungs ...
... trees ; it began to flee beneath him with terrific speed , they were in an eddy but did not know it ; he had no time to draw conclusions or even wonder ; he crouched , his teeth bared in his blood - caked and swollen face , his lungs ...
Pàgina 158
... trees , the sharp gables of houses , the long mournful heads of mules which he fended off with a splintered length of plank snatched from he knew not where in passing ( and which seemed to glare re- proachfully back at him with ...
... trees , the sharp gables of houses , the long mournful heads of mules which he fended off with a splintered length of plank snatched from he knew not where in passing ( and which seemed to glare re- proachfully back at him with ...
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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