Mosquitoes

by William Faulkner

Overview

William Faulkner’s inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausikaa, which is owned by a wealthy patron of the arts. The excursion on Lake Pontchartrain offers an intriguing glimpse into the youth of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486849799
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	07/13/2022
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (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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