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A Faulkner Chronology
Contributor(s): Gresset, Michel (Author)

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 ISBN: 0878052291     ISBN-13: 9780878052295
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE: $36.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 1985
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Annotation: This richly detailed outline of William Faulkners life is written by an eminent French scholar who brings new insights to the Nobel Laureates career and writings.

This book is intended to be a quick reference guide to Faulkners works as they relate to his life. Principally an outline of a literary career, it will serve as a useful aid for students beginning a study of Faulkners novels. It gives emphasis year-by-year to the main events in his life and to his professional activity. For the major works Gresset gives an account of the inception, composition, revisions, and publication. In addition, to summarize Faulkners publications in a given year, Gresset provides a list of the fiction published during the period.

From the time of Faulkners death in 1962 through 1984 the "Chronology" provides a publishing history of new original Faulkner material as well as information about important books and events that relate to Faulkner.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Regional
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Biography & Autobiography
Dewey: B
LCCN: 84050873
Lexile Measure: 1520(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.47 lbs) 140 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This richly detailed outline of William Faulkner's life is written by an eminent French scholar who brings new insights to the Nobel Laureate's career and writings.

This book is intended to be a quick reference guide to Faulkner's works as they relate to his life. Principally an outline of a literary career, it will serve as a useful aid for students beginning a study of Faulkner's novels. It gives emphasis year-by-year to the main events in his life and to his professional activity. For the major works, Gresset gives an account of the inception, composition, revisions, and publication. In addition, to summarize Faulkner's publications in a given year, Gresset provides a list of the fiction published during the period.

From the time of Faulkner's death in 1962 through 1984, the chronology provides a publishing history of new original Faulkner material as well as information about important books and events that relate to Faulkner.

"The figure that looms behind this chronology," Gresset says in his introduction, "is that of a hard-gutted and hard-fisted little man whose rather unhappy life may well have found only in literature . . . the deep satisfaction . . . that he never ceased to yearn after."

Contributor Bio(s): Gresset, Michel: - Michel Gresset, author of Faulkner ou la fascination, I: Poetique de regard, edited volume one of the Pleiade edition of Faulkner in France. He is also author of A Faulkner Chronology and coeditor (with Patrick H. Samway) of Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
 
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