![]() ![]() Photograph of a real planing mill in the 1930s, similar to the one depicted in the novel. However, over time, the novel has come to be considered one of the most important literary works by Faulkner and one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. Early reception of the novel was mixed, with some reviewers critical of Faulkner's style and subject matter. By focusing on characters who are misfits, outcasts, or otherwise marginalized in their community, he portrays the clash of alienated individuals against a Puritanical, prejudiced rural society. In a loose, unstructured modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class, and religion in the American South. In a series of flashbacks, the story reveals how these two people are connected to another man who has deeply impacted both their lives. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity. ![]() ![]() It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner. ![]()
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![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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![]() ![]() The sixth and seventh books, Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower, hit bookstores in June and September of 2004. It took King six years to put out Wizard and Glass (1997), and another six to publish Wolves of the Calla (2003). Constant Readers had to wait five years to get The Drawing of the Three (1987), and four more after that for The Waste Lands (1991). King published the first book in the Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger, way back in 1982. Roland is aided by his ka-tet, four companions he gathers and trains over the course of the series. If the Tower falls, then reality as we know it will cease to exist. The Dark Tower series centers on Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, as he makes his way across the desolate land of Mid-World in a last-ditch effort to save the titular Tower, which is the real, physical manifestation of the multiverse. ![]() If you're still on the fence about reading the books before you see the movie, I've got the 19 most-highlighted quotes from the Dark Tower series, which are sure to pique your interest. The long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series is almost upon us, which means now is the perfect time to pick up King's epic sci-fi/fantasy/horror western. ![]() ![]() Leighton M/M Madeline Sheehan Marine Menage Michelle A. Lutz Gideon Cross Giveaway Great Banter High School Incest Interview Kallypso Masters Katie Ashley Kelli Maine Kidnapping Kristen Ashley Kristen Proby Love Belvin Love Triangle M.
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