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A Rose for Emily Author: William Faulkner Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
A Rose for Emily Author: William Faulkner Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
A Rose for Emily is a collection of Faulkner's short stories, which concentrates on the outstanding works of Faulkner's short stories, including A Rose for Emily, Two Soldiers, Dry September, Look!, Switching Places, Zebra, Tomorrow, Lucas Buchan, Immortality, The Big Black Fool, and The Tree of Hope. These short stories have vivid plots and profound meanings, and the themes involve the decline of the old era of the American South, the opposition between the old and new South, social welfare, racial relations, war, growth, love, honor and moral choices, etc. These works use a lot of symbols and metaphors, with both the depth of pessimism and the passion of heroism. Inner monologue and stream of consciousness are also widely used in these novels, representing the style and main achievements of Faulkner's short story creation.
About the Author · · · · · ·
William Faulkner (1897-1962) is one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature and a representative of stream-of-consciousness literature. Born into a declining landowner family, he served in the Canadian Air Force during World War I. After the war, he dropped out of college for one year and devoted himself to writing after 1925. He wrote 19 novels and more than 70 short stories in his lifetime, most of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, known as the "Yoknapatawpha Lineage". His representative works include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), A Rose for Emily (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go, Moses (1942). In 1949, Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and artistically incomparable contribution to contemporary American fiction."
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Two Soldiers 14
Dry September 32
Look! 47
Swap position 68
Zebra 104
Tomorrow 126
Lucas Buchan144
Immortality165
Big Black Fool 178
Tree of Hope 200