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Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Title: Go down, Moses : and other stories / William Faulkner.
Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1960.
Description: 288 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes: First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 1942.
Contents: Was. -- The fire and the hearth. -- Pantaloon in black. -- The old people. -- The bear. -- Delta autumn. -- Go down, Moses.
ISBN: 0140014349
Subjects: Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Condition: cover soiled (s. pic), sl wear to edges and corners.
«Seven dramatic stories in this volume, first published in 1942, show this great writer's compassionate understanding of the negro world of the Deep South. His characters are the humble people woh live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, woh die unrecorded. The powerful prose is weighted with the passion and the agony of the human body and spirit.»
Editors text
«Has a richness of colour and feeling that belongs to maturity... exceptional wisdom and sympathy.»
Observer
«Magnificant stuff... All the tales are good and all contain vivid straight-from-the-horse's-mouth picture of a swiftly disintegrating society.»
Time and Tide
«As an introduction to the Faulkner world, Go down, Moses is an indispensionsable book for the hesitating visitor.»
Tribune
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