Sanctuary

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 18, 2011 - Fiction - 336 pages
A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
23
Section 4
28
Section 5
40
Section 6
44
Section 7
53
Section 8
64
Section 17
126
Section 18
136
Section 19
160
Section 20
179
Section 21
188
Section 22
200
Section 23
207
Section 24
224

Section 9
79
Section 10
83
Section 11
86
Section 12
94
Section 13
99
Section 14
103
Section 15
106
Section 16
114
Section 25
242
Section 26
260
Section 27
267
Section 28
283
Section 29
291
Section 30
297
Section 31
302
Copyright

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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
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About the author (2011)

William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.

Bibliographic information

TitleSanctuary
Vintage International
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
Editionreprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
ISBN0307793559, 9780307793553
Length336 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Gothic
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
  
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