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Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner. [1] It is a sequel to Faulkner's early novel Sanctuary, which introduced the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] 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.
Later, an official motor boat appears, taking the skiff, convict, woman and baby to New Orleans. They sneak away, and the convict paddles the skiff against the current until he is able to leave the woman and baby near a place she knows. He carries on up to the prison, where 10 years are added to his sentence for escaping. [1]
Red Leaves" is a short story by American author William Faulkner. First published in the Saturday Evening Post on October 25, 1930, [1] it was one of Faulkner's first stories to appear in a national magazine. [2] The next year the story was included in These 13, Faulkner's first collection of short stories. [3]
William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature.. William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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". [2] It won the Pulitzer Prize [3] and the National Book Award. [4] Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
Go Down, Moses is a 1942 collection of seven related pieces of short fiction by American author William Faulkner, sometimes considered a novel. [1] The most prominent character and unifying voice is that of Isaac McCaslin, "Uncle Ike", who will live to be an old man; "uncle to half a county and father to no one".
The sentence can be found in Chapter 6; it begins with the words "Just exactly like Father", and ends with "the eye could not see from any point". The passage is entirely italicized and incomplete. The final lyric of "Distant Early Warning", a single released by the Canadian rock band Rush , is the word 'Absalom' repeated three times.