New Orleans sketches / [edited by Carvel Collins].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Contributor:

Collins, Carvel, 1912-1990.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.

New Orleans (La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry ( The Marble Faun ), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Introduction; NEW ORLEANS: January-February, 1925; MIRRORS OF CHARTRES STREET: February 8, 1925; DAMON AND PYTHIAS UNLIMITED: February 15, 1925; HOME: February 22, 1925; JEALOUSY: March 1, 1925; CHEEST: April 5, 1925; OUT OF NAZARETH: April 12, 1925; THE KINGDOM OF GOD: April 26, 1925; THE ROSARY: May 3, 1925; THE COBBLER: May 10, 1925; CHANCE: May 17, 1925; SUNSET: May 24, 1925; THE KID LEARNS: May 31, 1925; THE LIAR: July 26, 1925; EPISODE: August 16, 1925; COUNTRY MICE: September 20, 1925; YO HO AND TWO BOTTLES OF RUM: September 27, 1925

Appendix: SHERWOOD ANDERSON: April 26, 1925

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9786612485817

9781282485815

1282485814

9781604734829

1604734825

OCLC:

472607617