THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS
Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2011
Summary
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” -William Faulkner
These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole.
- Spotted Horses is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the “cold practicality” of women against the boyish folly of men.
- Old Man is something of an adventure story. When a flood ravages the countryside of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307946751 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0307946754 |
| Author: | William Faulkner |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.” —Eudora Welty
“Faulkner’s greatness resided primarily in his power to transpose the American scene as it exists in the Southern states, filter it through his sensibilities and finally define it with words.” —Richard Wright
About The Author
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
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