Sanctuary Summary
William Faulkner

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Sanctuary Summary

"Sanctuary" by William Faulkner is the tale of the kidnapping of a young Mississippi debutante named Temple Drake. The story follows various threads to connect the characters and to explore the culture in rural Mississippi and Tennessee during prohibition.

Chapter 1 begins with Popeye meeting Benbow at a stream somewhere in rural Mississippi. It is May. Popeye stands on one side of the stream staring at Benbow, who at this point is...

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William Faulkner Biographies (6)

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

12,778 words, approx. 43 pages

William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to releas... Read more

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

6,859 words, approx. 23 pages

In explaining the comic side of William Faulkner's fiction, it soon becomes apparent how indivisible it is from the tragic side and how the two are almost inextricably intertwined. Early critics who m... Read more

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

2,332 words, approx. 8 pages

William Faulkner, one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, was also a screenwriter. The first of four brothers, he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the son of Murry Cuthbert a... Read more

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

10,162 words, approx. 34 pages

William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that hi... Read more

William Faulkner

1,902 words, approx. 7 pages

William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere r... Read more

William Faulkner

13,692 words, approx. 46 pages

Biography EssayWilliam Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as r... Read more