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 67
... turned up and shackled in braces like dogs at a field trial they stood , immobile , patient , almost rumi- nant , their backs turned to the rain as sheep and cattle do . After another while they became aware that the num- ber OLD MAN 67.
... turned up and shackled in braces like dogs at a field trial they stood , immobile , patient , almost rumi- nant , their backs turned to the rain as sheep and cattle do . After another while they became aware that the num- ber OLD MAN 67.
Pàgina 215
... turned . At twelve she had almost finished the first bottle and the lights were turned off save for a spotlight which played on a revolving globe of colored glass , so that the dancers moved with the faces of corpses in a wheel- ing of ...
... turned . At twelve she had almost finished the first bottle and the lights were turned off save for a spotlight which played on a revolving globe of colored glass , so that the dancers moved with the faces of corpses in a wheel- ing of ...
Pàgina 293
... turned it over to you . " The doctor looked at the pistol , then Wilbourne seemed to remember him stowing it methodically into the scuffed bag along with the stethoscope ; he just seemed to remember this be- cause he had followed the ...
... turned it over to you . " The doctor looked at the pistol , then Wilbourne seemed to remember him stowing it methodically into the scuffed bag along with the stethoscope ; he just seemed to remember this be- cause he had followed the ...
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