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By 1945, william faulkner was a parttime screenwriter and fulltime alcoholic with only one of his seventeen novelsthe racy sanctuarystill in print. William faulkner stacie dangelo american literature ii 2. Published in 1929, the sound and the fury was faulkner s fourth novel and had no immediate success. Collected stories of william faulkner open library. One of americas great novelists, william faulkner w. Big deals william faulkner and southern history best seller books best seller. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. Quentin compson and shreve, his harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of thomas sutpen. The first 140 pages deal with faulkner s ancestry and are extremely interesting, appealing mightily to the genealogist in me.
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