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Eliot and freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. A small town lawyer passing through on his way to his sisters home as he leaves his wife and the stepdaughter hes lusting after stumbles across a rundown homestead where liquor is made. Faulkner has not chosen to make any marked use of the streamofconsciousness technique. Listen to sound and the fury audiobook by william faulkner. William faulkner books list of books by author william. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Sanctuary was written by william faulkner in 1931, purely for money, according to faulkner himself. A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of t. Even though im not faulkner s number one reader, and even if sanctuary is not his best book, by far, it still is an interesting read. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing. Sanctuary is a novel by the american author william faulkner about the rape and abduction of a wellbred mississippi college girl, temple drake, during the prohibition era.
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