Essays, Speeches and Public Letters by William Faulkner.
An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A.
Most notably Cleanth Brooks, author of William Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha Country, William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond, and On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner; and James B. Meriwether, editor of William Faulkner: Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters. Faulkner’s novel The Reivers begins with the.
The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) Theresa M. Towner. Attractively designed, this concise and well-written introduction to William Faulkner's life and works will be a welcome addition to library collections serving undergraduates writing papers on this noted Southern writer. Notes that while there is an enormous body of critical literature on.
A beautifully illustrated children’s book unlike any other—a tender and atmospheric tale written by William Faulkner as a present for his future stepdaughter “If you are kind to helpless things, you don’t need a Wishing Tree to make things come true.” A strange boy leads a birthday girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree, which brings them many surprising and magical.
The sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational novel Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan’s child. In an attempt to save her, Temple goes to see the judge.
Yoknapatawpha County was a permeable overlay that covered the contours of the land that William Faulkner knew best. It was populated by unforgettable families like the Snopeses, the Sartorises, the Sutpens, the Compsons, the Varners, and a host of thoroughly black residents like Dilsey and “possible blacks” like Joe Christmas, whose doubts about whether he was black or not led to his.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner is one of the most important writers of southern American literature. He worked in a variety of media, writing novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his.