This novel is about the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held. The plot contains...
New Orleans Sketches
New Orleans sketches
New Orleans Sketches
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry ("The Marble Faun"),...
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness....
The ever-prolific author began contributing poems and sketches to the University of Mississippi's literary magazine at the age of 16. These early works reflect the growing refinement of his voice as a Southern author.
The Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children
One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet...
Absalón, Absalón!
¡Absalón, Absalón!
Hoy nadie pone en duda que "¡Absalón, Absalón!" es una obra maestra y una novela clave en la literatura universal.
A la vez fuente de inspiración literaria y materia de reflexión ética e histórica, el Sur transmite su abigarramiento y complejidad a la gran saga que constituye la obra de William Faulkner (1897-1962), en la que el condado de ...
The novel continues to focus on Mahon and his slow deterioration, and the various romantic complications that arise upon his return home. Faulkner drew inspiration for this novel from his own experience of the First World War.
Faulkner wrote, hand-lettered, illustrated & bound one copy of this little book in January, 1926, and presented it as a gift to a woman he wished to marry. This is...
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Barn Burning
... barras entre las ruedas traseras y los raíles, haciendo fuerza y empujando con golpes cortos, como si sacaran agua con una bomba, aunque yo seguía sin creérmelo: el vagón, negro, cuadrado y alto a la luz de la luna ... luna, con una ...
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text.
Retells the tragic times of the Compson family, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; man-child Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic and Dilsey, their black servant.