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 30
... wild hoping and the idle day and the evening's headlines , they were sleeping restlessly beneath the sound of the rain on the tin roof when at midnight the sudden glare of the electric bulbs and the guards ' voices waked them and they ...
... wild hoping and the idle day and the evening's headlines , they were sleeping restlessly beneath the sound of the rain on the tin roof when at midnight the sudden glare of the electric bulbs and the guards ' voices waked them and they ...
Pàgina 198
... no longer , they would tell ( or try to tell ) the men in the mine . Then two weeks later the train did return . They crossed the canyon to where the wild filthy jabbering men were already beginning to load the 198 WILD PALMS.
... no longer , they would tell ( or try to tell ) the men in the mine . Then two weeks later the train did return . They crossed the canyon to where the wild filthy jabbering men were already beginning to load the 198 WILD PALMS.
Pàgina 324
... wild jasmine , blowing on under the dying west and the bright star ; it was the night . So it wasn't just memory . Memory was just half of it , it wasn't enough . But it must be some- where , he thought . There's the waste . Not just me ...
... wild jasmine , blowing on under the dying west and the bright star ; it was the night . So it wasn't just memory . Memory was just half of it , it wasn't enough . But it must be some- where , he thought . There's the waste . Not just me ...
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