The Wild Palms Author:William Faulkner The Wild Palms is one of Faulkner's most painful and beautiful novels. In the rural wasteland of the South in the 1930's, two inmates escape from a penitentiary and two lovers, Charlotte and Harry, run away together -- sacrificing everything for their love. These two stories, alternately woven, describe four desperate people, attempting to esc... more »ape the poverty, decadence, and seething violence of a world from which there is no escape.« less