Mosquitoes

by William Faulkner

Overview

“Full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.”—Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune

A fascinating glimpse of the author as a young artist, Faulkner’s sophomore novel, Mosquitoes (1927), introduces us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. This engaging, high-spirited tale—which Faulkner wrote “for the sake of writing because it was fun”—provides a delightful accompaniment to his canonical works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631498091
Publisher:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,011,900
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William Faulkner (1897–1962) is the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, among other works. These two novels were originally published by Liveright in the 1920s.

Date of Birth:

September 25, 1897

Date of Death:

July 6, 1962

Place of Birth:

New Albany, Mississippi

Place of Death:

Byhalia, Mississippi

Table of Contents

Prologue 
The First Day
The Second Day
The Third Day
The Fourth Day
Epilogue
 

Editorial Reviews

[Mosquitoes] is full of the fine kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.
—New York Herald Tribune

Lillian Hellman

Faulkner has a sense of character; he has a sense of humor; he has a sense of style; and for his new novel, Mosquitoes, he has found an amusing and…original setting.
—New York Evening Post

Conrad Aiken

Swift and lusty writing…A brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men.”

New York Times bestselling author Lillian Hellman

"Swift and lusty writing. . . . A brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few." —Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune

“Faulkner has a sense of character; he has a sense of humor; he has a sense of style." —Conrad Aiken, New York Evening Post

"Wistful and poetic as well as sophisticatedly cynical." —Saturday Review

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