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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Page 75
... Sweet and ruinous , Milton says , with a soft sweet corruption about the mouth . I love him so . Wanting him for so long , holding off , having to , sitting back on these hips he says drive him frantic , like a saint yearning for ...
... Sweet and ruinous , Milton says , with a soft sweet corruption about the mouth . I love him so . Wanting him for so long , holding off , having to , sitting back on these hips he says drive him frantic , like a saint yearning for ...
Page 266
... sweet from its apocalyptic dawning to the last , ex- hausted , bedtime end ; all the near - ruined moments in the family had made this particular day even sweeter , but it was absolutely unfair of Peyton to suggest now that anything had ...
... sweet from its apocalyptic dawning to the last , ex- hausted , bedtime end ; all the near - ruined moments in the family had made this particular day even sweeter , but it was absolutely unfair of Peyton to suggest now that anything had ...
Page 269
... sweet singer of the liturgy , and could embroider upon the fabric of Christian poetry , already so rich in texture , the most exquisite designs . An altar cloth had been laid across a gate - leg table , and there were candles , and as ...
... sweet singer of the liturgy , and could embroider upon the fabric of Christian poetry , already so rich in texture , the most exquisite designs . An altar cloth had been laid across a gate - leg table , and there were candles , and as ...
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