Buy this book on-line MERIWETHER**, JAMES B - Edited by: : ESSAYS, SPEECHES and PUBLIC LETTERS by WILLIAM FAULKNER.**LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1966. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but an owner's ex-libris bookplate pasted to ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj. Protected dw/dj with minimal creasing or shelf-wear to edges and no nicks or tears.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and aged,fore-edge lightly aged and minimal spotting,bottom edge slightly marked.Contents bright,tight and very clean.Blue paper-covered boards with blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.Two small stains(grease?) to front bottom edge affecting both edge and foot of spine/backstrip and front corner without bleeding through to the ndeaperp.Approx bottom third of rear board affected by same stain which has bled through to the endpaper.Fortunately the dw/dj internally shows no sign of reciprocal staining.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,xpp+3-233pp includes editor's preface,essays,speeches,intros,book reviews and public letters.
William Faulkner is now universally regarded as one of the outstanding creative writers that America has produced.James Meriwether,a recognized authority on Faulkner and his work, has edited the present volume with great care and skill,and contributed a preface to it in which he writes:
'At one time William Faulkner planned a book of five or six related essays,to be called The American Dream.But he wrote only two chapters of it,'On Privacy' and 'On Fear',in 1955 and 1956.'
And apparently he never considered a more miscellaneous collection of his essays,though in the latter part of his career he did some of his best writing in that form.Presumably,had he approved and helped put together such a volume, it would have been selective,a smaller and more unified collection than this.But in the absence of any instruction from him it seems best now to make of this book as complete a record as possible of Faulkner's mature achievement in the field of non-fiction.His earliest literary essays and book reviews,written while he was a student and apprentice poet,are omitted here, as are a few fragmentary or unpublished 'public' letters.
Otherwise this collection includes the text of all Faulkner's mature articles,speeches,book reviews,introductions to books,and letters intended for publication.Most of the pieces are from the latter part of his career,and many of them reflect the increased sense of his responsibility as a public figure which Faulkner showed after he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.
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