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The Portable Faulkner by William Faulkner

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Book name: The Portable Faulkner (2024)
Category: Alienation
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Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 1, 1946, midnight
This collection showcases the work of a celebrated American author, featuring selections from his novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, and essays. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the author's distinctive narrative style and his exploration of complex themes such as identity, race, and the human condition, set against the backdrop of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in the American South. It serves as an excellent introduction to the author's oeuvre, demonstrating his profound influence on 20th-century literature. The 2207th greatest book of all time

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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

16 books

William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.

The majority of his works are set in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving th… Read more