William Faulkner: Annotations to the Novels

2 primary works • 4 total works

Sanctuary

by William Faulkner

Published 12 April 1966

A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

Published 1 January 1951

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner
 
Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.”

Go Down, Moses (Faulkner, Annotated)

by Nancy Dew Taylor and William Faulkner

Published 1 February 1994

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sound & The Fury (The)

by William Faulkner

Published 11 November 2004