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William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and nobel prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.
Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932).
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert Faulkner (August 17, 1870 – August 7, 1932) and Maud Butler (November 27, 1871 – October 19, 1960). He had three younger brothers: Murry Charles "Jack" Falkner (June 26, 1899 – December 24, 1975), author John Faulkner (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963) and Dean Swift Faulkner (August 15, 1907 – November 10, 1935).
Faulkner was born and raised in, and heavily influenced by, his home state of Mississippi, as well as by the history and culture of the American South altogether. Only four days prior to his fifth birthday, the Faulkner family settled in Oxford, Mississippi on September 21, 1902, where he resided on and off for the remainder of his life.
Family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline Barr (the black woman who raised him from infancy) crucially influenced the development of his artistic imagination: both his mother and grandmother were great readers and also painters and photographers, educating him in visual language. His life-long education by Callie Barr is central to his novels' preoccupations with the politics of sexuality and race. In adolescence, Faulkner began writing poetry almost exclusively. He did not write his first novel until 1925. His literary influences are deep and wide. He once stated that he modeled his early writing on the Romantic era in late 18th century and early 19th century England. He attended the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity. He enrolled at Ole Miss in 1919, and attended three semesters before dropping out in November 1920.
The younger Faulkner was greatly influenced by the history of his family and the region in which he lived. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of Black and White Americans, his characterization of Southern characters, and his timeless themes, including fiercely intelligent people dwelling behind the façades of good old boys and simpletons. Unable to join the United States Army due to his height, Faulkner enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps, later training at RFC bases in Canada and Britain, yet never experienced wartime action during the First World War.
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Novels
William Faulkner - The Sound And The Fury (read by Bruce Huntley)
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (read by Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver)
William Faulkner - Sanctuary (read by Stephen Hoye)
William Faulkner - Light In August (read by Scott Brick)
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! (read by Grover Gardner)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/31afa9c0c96c214fbc159d10d1400354/The_Sound_And_The_Fury.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/36225d506e15893e7bad2825fe0d20fc/As_I_Lay_Dying.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e10915e0cf8ad88ec0573a932c7071b3/Sanctuary.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/518e994294b95b90cdd789d2e053069d/Light_In_August.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/49ec6fa2c1f13d58186ca5acdf12e880/Light_In_August.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cfcb026d02995ec210ea18f9b86b36fd/Absalom_Absalom.rar.html |
Short Stories
William Faulkner - Collected Stories (read by Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Susan Denaker, Paul Michael, and Arthur Morey)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/eaaa4f4caff5c887dbc9db7f48c5f31b/William_Faulkner_Collected_Stories.rar.html |
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