ISBN10: 1931082898, ISBN13: 9781931082891, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four full-length works of fiction, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read.In these four novels we can track Faulkners extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and masters the mode and matter of his greatest works. Soldiers Pay (1926) expresses the disillusionment provoked by World War I through its account of the postwar experiences of homecoming soldiers, including a severely wounded R.A.F. pilot, in a style of restless experimentation. In Mosquitoes (1927), a raucous satire of artistic poseurs, many of them modeled after acquaintances of Faulkner in New Orleans, he continues to try out a range of stylistic approaches as he chronicles an ill-fated cruise on Lake Pontchartrain.With the sprawling Flags in the Dust (published in truncated form in 1929 as Sartoris), Faulkner began his exploration of the mythical region of Mississippi that was to provide the setting for most of his subsequent fiction. Drawing on family history from the Civil War and after, and establishing many characters who recur in his later books, Flags in the Dust marks the crucial ...

ISBN10: 1931082898, ISBN13: 9781931082891, [publisher: Library of America] Hardcover William Faulkner&#160(1897&#82111962) was born in Mississippi and was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize.&#160The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume pr.
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