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Faulkner, William.

The wild palms / William Faulkner. - London : Chatto and Windus, 1962. - 315 p. ; 20 cm.

"Harry is a medical student: it is his birthday and to relieve his inappropriate loneliness a friend takes him to an evening party. There Harry meets Charlotte: what begins as a sympathetic friendship grows, for the man at least, into a most frantic love. Harry throws up his career; Charlotte leaves her husband and family. Once Harry has chosen his new life there is no looking back.
Against this William Faulkner places the story of a convict who, when he is carried away from imprisonment by a mammoth flooding of the Mississippi, obstinately refuses to escape from the one world he knows.
Two stories, told in alternate chapters, compose a novel as suggestive of prime human motives as anything this great author has written." -- Inside cover

Subjects--Personal Names:
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 --Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Novel--English--United States--20th century--Texts.
Manuscripts, American--Facsimiles.
Floods--Fiction.
Floods.
Manuscripts, American.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mississippi River Valley--Fiction.
Mississippi River Valley.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Facsimiles.
Fiction.
Manuscripts.

LC Class. No.: PS3511.A86 / .W3 1970

Dewey Class. No.: 813.52