Three Famous Short Novels. Vintage Books, 1939

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Balcony of the William Faulkner House

College Hill Presbyterian Church, a few miles northwest from Oxford, Mississippi. This is the church where William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham married in 1929.

College Hill Presbyterian Church, a few miles northwest from Oxford, Mississippi. This is the church where William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham married in 1929.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Battle Creek Air National Guardsmen, 110th Airlift Wing Honor Guard, pose for a group photo after performing at the 2012 Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards ceremony, at the DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 15, 2012. This event is the premier annual event for all defense maintainers and recognizes the best maintenance units in the Department of Defense with the presentation of the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards, the highest award for maintenance within DoD. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. David Eichaker/released)

Penguin First edition published in 1960.

Dr. Jennifer Ford, archivist at the University of Mississippi, speaks to the group about materials they have acquired.

Marker for the church in College Hill, a few miles northwest from Oxford, Mississippi. This is the church where William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham married in 1929.

American writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner lived in Oxford, Mississippi. This bronze statue shows the author sitting on a bench outside Oxford City Hall in Lafayette County.

Monique Nathan : Faulkner par lui-même

Collections Microcosme, "Ecrivains de toujours", n° 65

Editions du Seuil - Paris, 1963

Livre réalisé par Simone Cayet

Good cup of coffee + Good book = Heavenly Time. =)

-Azoof

Home of William Faulkner

The house was built in 1848 by Colonel Robert R. Sheegog. It is primitive Greek Revival. Faulkner bought the place in 1930, renovated it, and lived there until his death in 1962.

Battle Creek Air National Guardsmen, 110th Airlift Wing Honor Guard, are coined by Mr. John Johns, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Maintenance) for an outstanding performance during the 2012 Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards ceremony, at the DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 15, 2012. This event is the premier annual event for all defense maintainers and recognizes the best maintenance units in the Department of Defense with the presentation of the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards, the highest award for maintenance within DoD. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. David Eichaker/released)

William Faulkner: Monnaie de singe

(Soldiers' Pay)

Editions Seghers - Paris, 1968

maquette de couverture: André Gobert

My book club is trying to decide our next book, and our instructions were to pick three books on your shelf you haven't read yet. These were my notes.

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it is the instant when it is still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin..." - William Faulkner

I watched the old movie The Big Sleep last night on my new TV set. The technical quality of the film was OK so I tried to take a few pictures of the sreen, while watching this Hollywood classic, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Borgart and Lauren Bacall.

The film is based on the novel by Raymond Chandler and another famous writer, William Faulkner was involved in writing the screen play.

First published in Penguin in 1955.

Reprinted in 1965.

This reprint published in 1970.

The cover shows a detail from 'Old Westover Mansion,Virginia' by Edward Lanson Henry in the Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washongton, DC

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For those, like me, who don't get all the cultural resonances, My Mixture is pipe tobacco.

Home of William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi

Flooding at a landing on Sardis Reservoir in northern Lafayette County, Mississippi, a reservoir formed by the damming of the Tallahatchie River.