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Walk on the wild side

"With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since." "Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind.""--Jacket.

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  • "A walk on the wild side"@it

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  • ""With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since." "Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind.""--Jacket."@en
  • "Overview: With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked. I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since." Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind.""@en

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Didactic fiction"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "A Walk on the wild side"
  • "Divlja predgrađa"
  • "Walk on the wild side"
  • "Walk on the wild side"@en
  • "Walk on the wild side"@it
  • "Röda lyktor"
  • "Röda lyktor"@sv
  • "Passeggiata selvaggia : romanzo"@it
  • "Un paseo por el lado salvaje"@es
  • "La rue chaude = A walk on the wild side"
  • "Wildnis des Lebens"
  • "Walk on the wild side : screenplay from the novel"@en
  • "La Ciudad queda lejos"
  • "La ciudad queda lejos"@es
  • "La ciudad queda lejos"
  • "A walk on the wild side"@it
  • "A Walk on the Wild Side"@en
  • "Špacír po divokejch končinách"
  • "A Walk on the Wild Side"
  • "A walk on the wild side"
  • "A walk on the wild side"@en
  • "Wildnis des Lebens : Roman"
  • "Un Paseo por el lado salvaje"
  • "Passeggiata selvaggia; romanzo"
  • "Passeggiata selvaggia"@it
  • "Passeggiata selvaggia"
  • "La rue chaude : roman"

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