FAULKNER, William.
Requiem for a Nun.
New York: Random House , 1951.
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity”: First Edition of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
First edition, first issue of the sequel to Faulkner's early novel 'Sanctuary.' Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, dark gray top stain, 'Chocktaw' rather than 'Choctaw' on page 21, dust jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer's name misspelled as 'M. McKnight Kauffer' on the front flap of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very fine example.
'Requiem for a Nun' follows the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens, introduced in Faulkner's 'Sanctuary.' The events in Requiem are set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1937 and March 1938, eight years after the events of Sanctuary. In Requiem, Temple, now married with a child, must learn to deal with her violent, turbulent past as related in Sanctuary.
Requiem for a Nun.
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