1897-1962

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1897-1962

Luciano's luck

1982
Lucky Luciano is slipped out of prison during World War II as a part of an effort to get the Italian peasantry to revolt against the Nazi German occupiers and aid the invading American units.

The sound and the fury

an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Presents the original text and a critical examination of William Faulker's "The Sound and The Fury" with end notes designed to assist the reader with obscure language and allusions. Contains appendix with background information and historical context.
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The Depression era

a historical exploration of literature
2016
"Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents; provides readers with an understanding of the great cultural issues of life in America in the 1930s; integrates and aligns material for the ELA Common Core Standards and American literature and social studies curriculum, supplying useful tools to support literary works--analysis, history, document excerpts, discussion questions, and areas for study; places three of the most significant writers of the decade within the sources of turmoil that affected their fiction; enables readers to construct their own visions of how three great writers represented the changing aspects of American culture in that era"--Provided by publisher.

The sound and the fury

Faulkner and the lost cause
1990

Reading and interpreting the works of William Faulkner

2016
Living in the southern United States during the civil rights movement, William Faulkner’s work is fraught with depictions of life in the changing South. Through the interpretation of key details of his life, as well as direct quotations and analysis of his word choice and themes, readers will learn how to examine and comprehend Faulkner’s writing for themselves.

The Sound and the Fury

an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers?the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

Producing American races

Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison
1999
Examines how the writings of Henry James, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison have influenced the formation of racial identities in the United States.

A companion to Faulkner studies

2004
Describes nineteen types of literary criticism, and discusses the benefits of each approach to the study of the writings of Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner.

Faulkner

a biography
1984

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