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William Faulkner: New Orleans
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Here in one volume are William Faulkner's first four novels. Each book is newly edited, and in many cases restored with passages that were altered or expurgated by the original publishers. 1180 pages.
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From Oxford, Miss., to Pirate's Alley in New Orleans to Rennes, France, to Tbilisi, Georgia, scholars and other Faulknerians are gathering today to commemorate the centenary of William Faulkner's birth. Faulkner himself would have been amazed to think he had such a worldwide following.
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Faulkner's birth truly marked the end of an era and the beginning of another. Between 1897, when Faulkner was born in New Albany, and 1903, when Faulkner moved to Oxford just three days shy of his fifth birthday, Oxford's first telephones were installed. The first water tower ... went up at that time, providing Oxford residents sewage and plumbing. Oxford turned on to electricity in 1908.
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Miss Emily emerges as a historical figure frozen in a sort of stasis, though throughout it all, Faulkner never makes her any less complex and ambiguous. Resistant to change though she may be, even she cannot hold back the effects of aging, growing steadily older: “the next few years” her hair “grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning” (671). This emphasis on the graying of Miss Emily and its final state of “iron-gray” is crucial to determining with surety just whose “long strand of iron-gray hair” we find in the indented pillow next to Barron’s remains at the end of the story (672). Within this exposition is again juxtaposed the concept of Miss Emily (representative of the old) versus the new: “then the newer generation became the backbone and spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from ladies’ magazines” (671). It would seem that Miss Emily, along with the China she taught children to paint, had become something of a relic herself, resistant to the demands of the younger generation.
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Faulkner's first novel, Soldier's Pay, was published in 1926, though it received little acclaim. Only with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929 would he receive significant critical and popular recognition. As a truly Modernist novel, The Sound and the Fury broke new ground with its four different narrators, the use of stream of consciousness writing and the use of a mentally handicapped boy as one narrator.
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The amount of Faulkner resources—essays, newsletters, websites, even movies—ain't trifling! In fact, Faulkner is the most studied author in the world, the subject of more books and articles than any other writer besides Shakespeare. So if reading three novels by Faulkner isn't enough for you, here's some extra credit.
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