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Supplies are limited, but we are offering these beautiful signed first editions for $50. Sadly, Faulkner House Books lost its founding father over the holidays. Joe DaSalvo, who opened our little bookstore in 1988 with his wife, Rosemary James, died on December 30th at the age of 88. He was a gentleman and a friend, and he will be profoundly missed. With all the love in the world for books and the people who treasure them, he built this place. A place beloved and cherished by more people from more places than we ever imagined.
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The bookstore is located on the first floor of the building where Faulkner once lived and penned his first novel. Instead Johnsonians believe that their man is too important a literary figure to be left to Boswell, a fool who wrote his book on Johnson, according to Thomas B. Macaulay, by the freakish of accident, nothing but a compilation of edited excerpts from his massive diaries. Half the biography is about the last nine years of Johnson’s life when he was old, fussy and querulous. It doesn’t do justice to Johnson’s literary personality which is best inferred from his formidable body of work.
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Faulkner Books sells new and used books, including classic and rare edition books by Faulkner and other historic writers. Collectors, authors, and visitors who have entered the cozy, literary sanctuary have described Faulkner Books as America's most charming bookstore. Friend of the bookstore Richard Ford was kind enough to sign some first editions of his recently-published collection of stories Sorry for Your Trouble.
Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.
William Faulkner wrote numerous novels, screenplays, poems, and short stories. Today he is best remembered for his novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! The Alabama House of Representatives voted for the bill that now moves to the Alabama Senate.
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Faulkner House Books features custom bookcases and storage cabinets of remilled antique cypress, a 19th-century Russian chandelier, and antique French Empire sconces. Even those who reluctantly concede The Life to be a minor masterpiece argue that the good is often enemy of the best. Boswell so persuades his readers that his Johnson is the Johnson that it is virtually impossible to read Johnson’s writings without Boswell’s version of him rising from the pages.
But over 95% of our revenue comes from walk-ins, to whom our doors are closed during this quarantine. One of the longest sentences in literary history, containing just under 1,300 words, can be found in chapter six of this book. However this frivolous feature is only a minor part of the achievement that is Absalom, Absalom!.
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This comic coming-of-age story features an eleven-year-old protagonist reminiscent of Mark Twain‘s Huckleberry Finn, and two older companions, who together steal a car in Mississippi and embark on a picaresque road trip filled with misadventures which take them north, to Memphis. The 1969 film adaptation of the novel starred Steve McQueen and was nominated for two Oscars. The Hamlet (1940)The Hamlet is the first in an epic trilogy about the Snopes family, who take by storm the community of Frenchman’s Bend, the hamlet to which the title refers, in a post-Civil War setting in Mississippi. A judge in July temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a similar law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.
“Outnumbered is the only daytime talk show that can handle the network’s breaking news coverage live and toggle to unscripted talk about culture, politics—everything,” Faulkner tells TVNewser on the show’s 10th anniversary. The abstract paintings hung above the sofa and dining table are the work of Garner Robinson's late mother, Julie Robinson, a local artist. One of many contrasts in the space finds a bold blue midcentury modern chair facing an Empire settee, upholstered in palest Venetian green velvet. The design duo wanted the eclectic mix to appear as if the pieces were collected over time. "And we just bought a ton at auction, but now I'm able to buy more books than I ever have in my life." The house features charming twists, turns and split-level passages once linked to a garçonnière.
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City of Secrets is a literary thriller, a fast but thoughtful read about survivor guilt, post-World War II Jerusalem, and the intoxication of violence. Scott Naugle has published hundreds of book reviews and lifestyle articles over the past 15 years in The Sun Herald, The Mobile Register, Clarion-Ledger, Beach Blvd Magazine, and Mississippi Magazine among others. He is a native of Davidsville, Pennsylvania and received an undergraduate degree from Penn State University in Insurance and Risk Management. He also earned graduate degrees in English from Millsaps College and Tulane University where he also taught as an adjunct professor. He is Chief Operating Officer of one of the largest publicly-traded insurance brokerages in the United States. Most importantly, he is the co-owner of Pass Christian Books and Cat Island Coffeehouse in Pass Christian on the Mississippi coast, where he resides in a mid-nineteenth century home filled with books and an untended garden.
The shop was named for William Faulkner, who completed his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, while living here.
Scott, who began his career in 1977, said he has never seen anything like the current climate. He said the Gadsden Public Library where he works has seen one person — who eventually obtained a role in library governance — challenge 30 books. Most of the book challenges are related to books with content about gender identity. But they also have included a book about a boy who wants to become a ballet dancer, he said. In these poems, the moon, like love and death, becomes more than a symbol; it is almost a character in itself.
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