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Faulkner's People: A Complete Guide and Index to Characters in the Fiction of William Faulkner

by Robert W. Kirk, Marvin Klotz

Pages: 356

Contributors: Robert W. Kirk,Marvin Klotz

Publisher: University of California Press

Place of Publication: Berkeley, CA

Publication Year: 1963

Subjects: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Characters--Dictionaries,Characters And Characteristics In Literature--Dictionaries,Southern States--In Literature--Dictionaries

Table of Contents

Title Page

Introduction

To the Reader

Contents

The Novels

Soldiers' Pay (1926)

Mosquitoes (1927)

Sartoris (1929)

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

The Sound and the Fury: Appendix

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Sanctuary (1931)

Light in August (1932)

Pylon (1935)

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

The Unvanquished (1938)

The Wild Palms (1939)

The Hamlet (1940)

Intruder in the Dust (1948)

Knight's Gambit (1949)

Requiem for a Nun (1951)

A Fable (1954)

The Town (1957)

The Mansion (1959)

The Reivers (1962)

Short Stories and Sketches

Thrift

Once aboard the Lugger

Miss Zilphia Gant

Go Down, Moses (1942.)

Afternoon of a Cow

Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950)

Big Woods (1955)

New Orleans Sketches (1958)

Appendix

Characters Handled Inconsistently

Genealogical Charts

Master Index of Characters

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