New Orleans Sketches
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University Press of Mississippi , 2002.
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"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 in one volume are the pieces he wrote while in the French Quarter. These were published locally in the Times-Picayune and in the Double Dealer. The pieces in New Orleans Sketches broadcast seeds that would take root in later works. In their themes and motifs these sketches and stories foreshadow the intense personal vision and style that would characterize Faulkner's mature fiction. As his sketches take on parallels with Christian liturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy similar to Benjy Compson, they reveal evidence of his early literary sophistication."-- Amazon.com.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Faulkner, W., & Collins, C. (2002). New Orleans Sketches . University Press of Mississippi.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Faulkner, William and Carvel Collins. 2002. New Orleans Sketches. University Press of Mississippi.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Faulkner, William and Carvel Collins. New Orleans Sketches University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Faulkner, W. and Collins, C. (2002). New orleans sketches. University Press of Mississippi.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Faulkner, William, and Carvel Collins. New Orleans Sketches University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
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