William Faulkner
Author
Series
Modern library volume 351
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1948]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition features William Faulkner's astounding 1932 novel Light in August. Taking place in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era, the narrative confronts issues of race, religion, and sexuality that are still relevant to today's readers. The "Backgrounds and Contexts" section presents biographical information on the author, whereas "Reception and Influence" highlights past and present views of Faulkner and his work. "Historical...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen stories deal with small town southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and arson. Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published the Sound and the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels and with the subjects and characters of small town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's....
29) Novels 1942-1954
Author
Series
Library of America volume 73
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1994.
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...
30) The wishing tree
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1967, c1964]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 164
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
33) Go down, Moses
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ab Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and, at the same time, how former slaves could be brought into the life of the country.