From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original gray cloth over red boards, lettered in red on the spine, decorated endleaves. 380 pp. A handsome, sound and pleasing copy, well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S CONTROVERSIAL NOVEL ABOUT RAPE. 'Faulkner wrote this novel about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends. The novel provided the basis for the films The Story of Temple Drake (1933) and Sanctuary (1961). It also inspired the novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish as well as the film of the same title and The Grissom Gang, which derived from No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The story of the novel can also be found in the 2007 film Cargo 200. Faulkner later wrote Requiem for a Nun (1951) as a sequel to Sanctuary.' wiki. Seller Inventory # 33399
Bibliographic Details
Title: SANCTUARY
Publisher: New York Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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