Faulkner william

1930 · 488 — <p>VERY GOOD — BOARDS: Spotting to front back and spine; crown of latter soft w/very small closed tear to same. BOOK: Nice topstain. Minor stain to textblock foot. Age toning. Minor separation between textblock head and spine cover. Please read description and inspect photos closely for condition details.</p><p><strong>Here on offer is a very nice copy of William Faulkner's Southern Gothic work <em>As I Lay Dying</em> his 5th novel consistently ranked among the best of the 20th century. This copy is a true 1st American edition 1st printing 1st state published by Jonathan Cape : Harrison Smith in 1930. It is without the dust jacket.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>"A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie their wife and mother.</em></p><p><em>As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure style and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members including Addie herself as well as others the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. </em></p><p><em>'I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.' —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying . . . "</em></p><p><strong>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</strong></p><p><strong>William Cuthbert Faulkner September 25 1897 – July 6 1962 was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County based on Lafayette County Mississippi where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.</strong></p><p><strong>Faulkner was born in New Albany Mississippi and his family moved to Oxford Mississippi when he was a child. With the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay 1925. He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris 1927 his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929 he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade he wrote Light in August Absalom Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep; the former film adapted from a novel by Ernest Hemingway is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.</strong></p><p><strong>Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his being awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works A Fable 1954 and The Reivers 1962 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6 1962 following a fall from his horse the prior month. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".</strong></p><p><em>The above text was taken from respectively Knopf Doubleday publishing via Google Books and Wikipedia.</em></p> Jonathan Cape : Harrison Cape hardcover