Southern Classics Library: Faulkner: The Bear: Franklin
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Southern Classics Library: William Faulkner: Go Down, Moses and Other Stories Southern Classics Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Other Stories, a Limited edition, published in 1983 by Oxmoor House. Bound in an Most Handsome royal blue Moroccan cowhide, the book has marbelized endleaves, satin book marker, hubbed spines, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges--in near FINE condition. William Faulkner, who lived from 1897-1962, was a descendant of Colonel William Cuthert Falkner, the inspiration for Colonel John Sartoris. He was born in NEW ALBANY, MISSISSIPPI and attended the University of Mississippi. Faulkner served in the RAF in World World I, lived in New Orleans, toured in Europe, but he returned to his native YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTY where he married Estelle Oldham, fathered a daughter, Jill, and bought his beloved home, Rowan Oak. Faulkner published more than thirty novels and was awarded the coveted NOBEL PRIZE in 1949. In the late 1950s, Faulkner became Writer-in-Residence at the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA---at Charlottesville. Go Down, Moses is a collection of seven related pieces of short fiction. The most prominent character and unifying voice is that of Isaac McCaslin, "Uncle Ike," who will live to be an old man; "uncle to half a county and father to no one." Originally published
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