New Orleans Sketches
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
New Orleans Sketches gathers William Faulkner's earliest published prose — a series of short vignettes and character studies originally written for the New Orleans literary magazine The Double Dealer and the Times-Picayune newspaper in 1925. The collection presents a vivid portrait of the city's diverse inhabitants, from street vendors and drifters to artists and outcasts, illuminating the social textures of 1920s New Orleans with remarkable economy and lyrical precision. With an introduction by Carvel Collins, who contextualises these juvenilia within Faulkner's broader literary development, the volume offers an invaluable window into the formative imagination of one of America's greatest novelists. Readers will recognise in these sketches the seeds of the moral complexity, regional atmosphere, and psychological depth that would come to define Faulkner's celebrated later works.
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Paperback
Published: 1958, Digit Book
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
New Orleans Sketches gathers William Faulkner's earliest published prose — a series of short vignettes and character studies originally written for the New Orleans literary magazine The Double Dealer and the Times-Picayune newspaper in 1925. The collection presents a vivid portrait of the city's diverse inhabitants, from street vendors and drifters to artists and outcasts, illuminating the social textures of 1920s New Orleans with remarkable economy and lyrical precision. With an introduction by Carvel Collins, who contextualises these juvenilia within Faulkner's broader literary development, the volume offers an invaluable window into the formative imagination of one of America's greatest novelists. Readers will recognise in these sketches the seeds of the moral complexity, regional atmosphere, and psychological depth that would come to define Faulkner's celebrated later works.