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 29
... watched the approach of the disaster with that same amazed and incredulous hope of the slaves - the lions and bears and elephants , the grooms and bathmen and pastrycooks who watched the mounting flames of Rome from Ahenobarbus ...
... watched the approach of the disaster with that same amazed and incredulous hope of the slaves - the lions and bears and elephants , the grooms and bathmen and pastrycooks who watched the mounting flames of Rome from Ahenobarbus ...
Pàgina 200
... watched him out of nothing , subdued , patient , obedient , trusting and wild . " Now what ? " he said again . Then he began to watch Charlotte and now they all watched her , the five women pushing forward also to see , as she fastened ...
... watched him out of nothing , subdued , patient , obedient , trusting and wild . " Now what ? " he said again . Then he began to watch Charlotte and now they all watched her , the five women pushing forward also to see , as she fastened ...
Pàgina 314
... watched later a tiny figure which he knew to be a woman taking the garments from the line , believing he could distinguish the gesture with which she put the clothes pins one by one into her mouth , and he thought , If we had known it ...
... watched later a tiny figure which he knew to be a woman taking the garments from the line , believing he could distinguish the gesture with which she put the clothes pins one by one into her mouth , and he thought , If we had known it ...
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