Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages Styron's novels--such as Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice--have established him as a writer of international stature. Here he traces the betrayals, spite and disappointed love that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis. |
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... gone , she's gone from me ! " • ... He had come in the evening yesterday as she stood , after her solitary supper , in the hall . ( Ella had said , “ Kin I have de day off tomorrow , Miss Helen ? Daddy Faith , he-- " but Helen had said ...
... gone , she's gone from me ! " • ... He had come in the evening yesterday as she stood , after her solitary supper , in the hall . ( Ella had said , “ Kin I have de day off tomorrow , Miss Helen ? Daddy Faith , he-- " but Helen had said ...
Page 128
... gone on dredg- ing the shallows of her despair , embarrassing him and , occasionally , touching him with her confusion . They had sat there until long past midnight - until Adrienne had called from upstairs in a muffled , cross voice ...
... gone on dredg- ing the shallows of her despair , embarrassing him and , occasionally , touching him with her confusion . They had sat there until long past midnight - until Adrienne had called from upstairs in a muffled , cross voice ...
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... gone that nothing can help her . Not even God . So it's madness , after all . And he thought briefly about madness ... gone mad ; how mad he was unable to say , but enough for him to understand , with an inward groan of despair , that ...
... gone that nothing can help her . Not even God . So it's madness , after all . And he thought briefly about madness ... gone mad ; how mad he was unable to say , but enough for him to understand , with an inward groan of despair , that ...
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