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William Faulkner est né en 1897 dans l'État du Mississippi. Il appartient à une vieille famille aristocratique ruinée par la guerre de Sécession. Après avoir tâté de différents métiers, vécu à New York et à Paris, il revient habiter dans son pays natal et s'installe à Oxford, Mississippi. Il partage désormais son temps entre la littérature et l'administration de ses terres. William Faulkner a reçu le prix Nobel en 1949 ; il est probablement l'écrivain qui a eu le plus d'influence sur la littérature contemporaine. Il est mort le 6 juillet 1962.
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Téléchargez le livre :  Le bruit et la fureur
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Le bruit et la fureur

William Faulkner , Charles Recoursé


Editions Gallimard

2025-11-06

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Au printemps 1928, dans un comté imaginaire du sud des États-Unis, la vieille famille aristocratique des Compson se déchire sous le regard dépité de ses domestiques.Au sein d’une grande demeure décatie, quatre voix se répondent par ricochet : Benjy,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Stories
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This is a collection of the very best of William Faulkner’s short stories. Included are classics of short-form fiction such as ‘A Bear Hunt’, ‘A Rose for Emily’, ‘Two Soldiers’ and ‘The Brooch’. Faulkner’s ability to compress his epic vision into narratives of such...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Unvanquished
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In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. The characters are largely based on Faulkner's own family; in particular, Colonel John Sartoris is a fairly...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Absalom, Absalom!
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This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Intruder In The Dust
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An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will...

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Parution : 2013-07-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Go Down Moses And Other Stories
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Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Wild Palms
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'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Reivers
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Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart...

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Télécharger le livre :  Light In August
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A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sound And The Fury
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A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Requiem For A Nun
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'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads with Temple to intercede, but will the past...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sanctuary
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Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A...

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Télécharger le livre :  As I Lay Dying
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The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Absalom, Absalom!
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*"Uncover the Dark Secrets of the Deep South* Explore the tragic legacy of slavery and racism through the complex Sutpen family saga. Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's masterpiece of Southern Gothic literature is a powerful and haunting classic that will...

Editeur : Horizon Ridge Publishing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Reivers
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One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a...

Editeur : Horizon Ridge Publishing
Parution : 2024-07-29

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Télécharger le livre :  As I Lay Dying
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In this powerful and poignant novel, William Faulkner explores the complexities of human relationships and the decline of a Southern family. Through multiple narratives and stream-of-consciousness writing, Faulkner masterfully weaves together the story of the Bundren...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sound and the Fury
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"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner is a classic novel that explores the decline of a Southern aristocratic family through four different narratives. The Compson family's struggles with financial ruin, loss of faith, and tragic deaths are portrayed through the...

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