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Title	:	A Rose for Emily
Author	:	William Faulkner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 36 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1990 by Perfection Learning (first published April 30th 1930)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Classics. Fiction. Horror. Gothic. Academic. School

A Rose for Emily Paperback | Pages: 36 pages

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Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later in his career with two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, A Fable (1954), and The Reivers (1962), along with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.

A Rose for Emily is the tragic story of Miss Emily Grierson, who is Faulkner's symbol for the dying, decaying traditions and prejudices of the old South. It's a dark tale of parental domination, societal isolation, and mental illness. With a surprising and shocking ending, it's William Faulkner at his best.

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Original Title:	A Rose for Emily
ISBN:	1563127881 (ISBN13: 9781563127885)
Edition Language:	English

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Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later in his career with two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, A Fable (1954), and The Reivers (1962), along with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.A Rose for Emily is the tragic story of Miss Emily

Sheesh! I read this a thousand years ago and loved it. We just finished a book in one of my good reads groups that reminded me of this, but I found Love in a Dry Season to fall short of this mark.

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~SKELETON IN CLOSET, YOU SAY?Doubtless we all have our own "dark spots" in history, but Miss Emily was 'da gal. I shuddered with horror at the end of this necrophilia story and the way old view reversed itself in the new view: all the respect and tolerance the city people showed to Miss Emily... in comparison with what they discovered about her in the end. Just as Faulkner himself, I pity her greatly. Mentally unstable, unloved, with lost hope for a better life. Ouch.I read this short story

General info: "A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published in the April 30, 1930, issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional southern county of Yoknapatawpha. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.Personal opinion: Mehhh. Kind of wanted to get into Faulkner's short fiction (since I'm going to analyse Murakami's Barn Burning soon!) and A Rose for Emily

Summary:A splendid noir and brief tale of the life of an recluse American Southern elderly woman named Emily Grierson who had died. Emily was an eccentric woman who might be characterized as stubborn and who certainly lived her life on her own terms. As a woman in her thirties, she had become estranged from her family and about then her only living housemate, her father, had died leaving her alone. In the past, there had been gossip that she'd marry a man by the name of Homer Barron.

At first, the title of this short story made me think of romance and sweet love (or at least a story about a long-lost love, because come on, roses are often associated with romance and sweetness). But man, this is William Faulkner, so there better not be any romance in it :D Instead, this is a chilling Southern gothic story with an unexpected twist at the end that reveals a lot about the main character - Miss Emily.It's not easy to understand all aspect of a William Faulkner's short story if we