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Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel ''Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote ''Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner Bibliography
William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer known for his Southern Gothic novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He is widely considered the preeminent writer of Southern literature and among the most significant figures in American literature. "William Faulkner Facts". In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel". In 1919, as a student at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner published his first work, the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", in ''The New Republic''. While living in New Orleans in 1925, he published over a dozen short stories collectively known as the " New Orleans Sketches". Faulkner's first novels—''Soldiers' Pay'' (1926) and ''Mosquitoes'' (1927)—were not successful, and his third, '' Flags in the Dust'', was rejected by publishers before its publication as the abr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound And The Fury
''The Sound and the Fury'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Published in 1929, ''The Sound and the Fury'' was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful. In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel, ''Sanctuary'', was published—a sensationalist story, which Faulkner later said was written only for money—''The Sound and the Fury'' also became commercially successful, and Faulkner began to receive critical attention. The work has entered the public domain as of January 1, 2025. Composition & publication William Faulkner began writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' after a difficult experience publishing his third novel, '' Flags in the Dust''. Because Faulkner's first two novels, '' Soldiers' Pay'' and ''Mosquitoes'', sold poorly, the publisher Horace Liveright declined to publish ''Flags''. Faulkner spent nearly a year trying to find an alternate publisher, and finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light In August
''Light in August'' is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern Gothic and modernist literary genres. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity. In a series of flashbacks, the story reveals how these two people are connected to another man who has deeply impacted both their lives. In a loose, unstructured modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class, and religion in the American South. By focusing on characters who are misfits, outcasts, or otherwise marginalized in their community, he portrays the clash of alienated individuals against a Puritanical, prejudiced rural society. Early reception of the novel was mixed, with some reviewers critical of Faulkner's style and subject matter. However, over time, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanctuary (Faulkner Novel)
''Sanctuary'' is a 1931 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends. The novel provided the basis for the films ''The Story of Temple Drake'' (1933) and ''Sanctuary (1961 film), Sanctuary'' (1961). It also inspired the novel ''No Orchids for Miss Blandish (novel), No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' as well as the No Orchids for Miss Blandish (film), film of the same title and ''The Grissom Gang'', which derived from ''No Orchids for Miss Blandish''. The story of the novel can also be found in the 2007 film ''Cargo 200 (film), Cargo 200''. Faul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Have And Have Not (film)
''To Have and Have Not'' is a 1944 American romantic war adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot, centered on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter, is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Hemingway and Hawks were close friends and, on a fishing trip, Hawks told Hemingway, who was reluctant to go into screenwriting, that he could make a great movie from his worst book, which Hawks admitted was ''To Have and Have Not''. Jules Furthman wrote the first screenplay, which, like the novel, was set in Cuba. However, the screenplay was altered to be set in Martinique, because the portrayal of Cuba's government was believed to be in violation of the United States' Good Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soldiers' Pay
''Soldiers' Pay'' is the first novel published by the American author William Faulkner. It was originally published by Boni & Liveright on February 25, 1926. It is unclear if ''Soldiers' Pay'' is the first novel written by Faulkner. It is however the first novel published by the author. Faulkner was working on two manuscripts while finishing ''Soldiers' Pay.'' Plot overview The plot of ''Soldiers' Pay'' revolves around the return of a wounded aviator home to a small town in Georgia following the conclusion of the First World War. He is escorted by a veteran of the war, as well as a widow whose husband was killed during the conflict. The aviator himself suffered a horrendous head injury, and is left in a state of almost perpetual silence, as well as blindness. Several conflicts revolving around his return include the state of his engagement to his fiancée, the desire of the widow to break the engagement in order to marry the dying aviator herself, and the romantic intrigue surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sartoris
''Sartoris'' is a Southern Gothic novel, first published in 1929, by the American author William Faulkner. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as '' Flags in the Dust''. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. His friend Ben Wasson was the model for Horace Benbow, while Faulkner's brother Murry served as the antetype for young Bayard Sartoris. Synopsis The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel John was a Confedera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As I Lay Dying
''As I Lay Dying'' is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century.The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major, Collins, 1999.The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by , Riverhead Trade, 1995. The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of |
Yoknapatawpha County
Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based on and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county". Overview From '' Sartoris'' (1929) onwards, Faulkner set all but three of his novels in the county, as well as over 50 of his stories (the three later novels which were set elsewhere were '' Pylon'', '' The Wild Palms'', and '' A Fable''). '' Absalom, Absalom!'' includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. The word ''Yoknapatawpha'' is derived from two Chickasaw words—''Yocona'' and ''petopha'', meaning "split land." Faulkner said to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land." ''Yoknapatawpha'' was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fable
''A Fable'' is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's '' Catch-22''. Synopsis The book takes place in France during World War I and stretches through the course of one week in 1918. Corporal Stefan, who represents the reincarnation of Jesus, orders 3,000 troops to disobey orders to attack in the brutally repetitive trench warfare. In return, the Germans do not attack, and the war stops when soldiers realize that it takes two sides to fight a war. The Generalissimo, who represents leaders who use war to gain power, invites his German counterpart to discuss how to restart the war. He then arrests and executes Stefan. Before Stefan's execution, the Generalissimo tries to convince the corporal that war can never be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (Epithet, byname Ole Miss) is a Public university, public research university in University, near Oxford, Mississippi, United States, with a University of Mississippi Medical Center, medical center in Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment. The Mississippi Legislature chartered the university on February 24, 1844, and in 1848 admitted its first 80 students. During the American Civil War, Civil War, the university operated as a Confederate States of America, Confederate hospital and narrowly avoided destruction by Ulysses S. Grant's forces. In 1962, during the civil rights movement, Ole Miss riot of 1962, a race riot occurred on campus when Racial segregation in the United States, segregationists tried to prevent the enrollment of African American student James Meredith. The university has since taken measures to improve its image. The university is closely associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the British colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in languages other than English. The American Revolutionary Period (1775–1783) is notable for the political writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. An early novel is William Hill Brown's '' The Power of Sympathy'', published in 1791. The writer and critic John Neal in the early-to-mid-19th century helped to advance America toward a unique literature and culture, by criticizing his predecessors, such as Washington Irving, for imitating their British counterparts and by influencing writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, who took American poetry and short fiction in new directions. Ralph Waldo Emerson pioneered the influential Transcendentalism movement; Henry David T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
