William Faulkner
Author
Series
Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1,034 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 73
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
ix, 1,115 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity - sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve - and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it. This volume - the third in The Library of America's new, authoritative...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 48
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
1,117 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Vintage criticism literature music and art volume 792
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
10) Sanctuary
Author
Language
English
Description
Southern story of cruelty and perversion, about a young college girl who falls under the spell of a gangster bootlegger. Precedes "Requiem for a Nun."
11) The wishing tree
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
81 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many surprising and magical adventures.
13) Snopes
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xvi, 1,065 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
These three full-length novels compose the Snopes trilogy. In "The Hamlet," the cunning Flem Snopes is introduced with other members of his conniving family. Flem's dream is to marry Eula Varner and remake the small world of Frenchman's Bend as his own personal kingdom. In "The Town," Flem sets his sights on the county seat of Yoknapatawpha County, Jefferson, in a ruthless bid for even more power. Finally, in "The Mansion," Mink Snopes brings down...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 112
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1,008 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of the microcosmic domain where he set most of his novels and stories. Faulkner wanted to use the time remaining to him to achieve a summing-up of his fictional world." "The Town (1957) is the second novel in the Snopes trilogy that began with The Hamlet. Here the rise of the rapacious Flem Snopes and his...
17) The hamlet
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
366 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
18) Go down, Moses
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1955]
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English