"To declare that Light in August is William Faulkner's finest work would be to invoke debate of irreconcilable conclusion. Yet for many followers of Faulkner, this novel showcases many of his best moments and characters. As usual, he mines the rich soil of Mississippi mud to create his subjects, this time in the form of Reverend Gail Hightower, Lena Grove and Joe Christmas. The issue of black and white and rich and poor is prevalent, tho ..."
"“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntles ..."
LightinAugust(1st Edition) by Alwyn Berland Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1992 by Twayne Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-8050-5, ISBN: 0-8057-8050-5
LightinAugust The Corrected Text by William Faulkner Paperback, 565 Pages, Published 1987 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74743-9, ISBN: 0-394-74743-7
"An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities. Audie Award-winning narrator Will Patton lends his voice to Light in August. ..."
LightInAugust (Picador Classics) by William Faulkner Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1992 by Pan Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-330-31743-6, ISBN: 0-330-31743-1
"One of Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, "Light in August" reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions o ..."
LightinAugust(1st Edition) A Study in Black and White (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) by Alwyn Berland Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 1992 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-8100-7, ISBN: 0-8057-8100-5
"... Virginia 1957-1958, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (Char-
lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1959), p. 74. 10. Regina K. Fadiman,
Faulkner's "Light in August": A Description and Interpretation of the Revisions (
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975), pp. 33-4. 11. "An Introduction
for The Sound and the Fury," 709. 12. Carl F. W. Ficken suggests in "A Textual
and Critical Study of William Faul ..."
William Faulkner's LightinAugust (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom Library, 175 Pages, Published 1987 by Chelsea House Pub (L) ISBN-13: 978-1-55546-047-1, ISBN: 1-55546-047-X
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Guns Of August(Reprint) The Drama of August 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today [Illustrated] by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Rh Value Publishing Hardcover, 511 Pages, Published 1986 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-517-38574-6, ISBN: 0-517-38574-0
"[Read by Wanda McCaddon -aka- Nadia May] *Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award *One of AudioFile's Best Voices of 2009 for History: Wanda McCaddon Winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored u ..."
Blood Evidence(1st Edition) A Story of True Crime in the Suburban South by Craig A. Lewis Hardcover, 271 Pages, Published 1990 by August House Pub Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-87483-116-0, ISBN: 0-87483-116-4
Cowboy Folk Humor(1st Edition) Life and Laughter in the American West by John O. West Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1990 by August House Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87483-104-7, ISBN: 0-87483-104-0
First Light(1st Edition) by Emily Ellison Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 1985 by William Morrow & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-688-04949-2, ISBN: 0-688-04949-4
Death Notes(Reprint) (Inspector Wexford) by Ruth Rendell Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1986 by Fawcett ISBN-13: 978-0-345-34198-3, ISBN: 0-345-34198-8
Chains of Light(1st Edition) by Quentin Thomas Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1992 by Roc ISBN-13: 978-0-451-45209-2, ISBN: 0-451-45209-7
A Whole New Light(Reprint) A Novel by Sandra Brown Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-29783-6, ISBN: 0-553-29783-X
Surveys in Combinatorics, 1989(1st Edition) Invited Papers at the Twelfth British Combinatorial Conference (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series) by Johannes Siemons Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1989 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37823-9, ISBN: 0-521-37823-0