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Paperback Essays, Speeches & Public Letters Book

ISBN: 081297137X

ISBN13: 9780812971378

Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

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An essential collection of William Faulkner's mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay "On Criticism" and the beguiling "Note on A Fable." It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything...

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