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Year

1929-1962

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Faulkner, William. [Works].
1929
Faulkner, William. The sound and the fury. (New York, N.Y. : J. Cape and H. Smith 1929). [Google books].
"It's never to have had them then I could say O That That's Chinese I don't know Chinese."
"Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue."

1930
Faulkner, William. A rose for Emily. In : Forum ; April 30 (1930). [Google books].
"From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting…"
"A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier…"

1931
Faulkner, William. All the dead pilots. In : Faulkner, William. These 13 : stories. (New York, N.Y. : J. Cape & H. Smith, 1931.
http://ia600204.us.archive.org/20/items/collectedstories030393mbp/collectedstories030393mbp.pdf.
"In
1914 he was in Sandhurst : a big, ruddy-colored chap with china eyes, and I like to think of his uncle sending for him when the news got out, the good news."

1931
Faulkner, William. Sanctuary. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1931). [Google books].
"The clock was of flowered china…"
"The china figures which supported the clock gleamed in hushed smooth flexions…"
"She picked up the pistol again ; atter a moment she thrust it beneath the mattress and undressed and in a spurious Chinese robe splotched with gold dragons and jade and scarlet flowers the left the room.

1935
Faulkner, William. Uncle Willy. In : The American mercury ; Oct. (1935).
"… while we watched the airplane with Secretary and Uncle Willy in it kind of jump into the air and then duck down like Uncle Willy was trying to take the short cut to China…"
http://ia600204.us.archive.org/20/items/collectedstories030393mbp/collectedstories030393mbp.pdf.

1939
Faulkner,
William. The wild palms. = If I forget thee Jerusalem. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1939). [Google books].
"Once (it was in Mississippi, in May, in the flood year 1927) there were two convicts. One of them was about twenty-five, tall, lean, flat-stomached, with a sunburned face and Indian-black hair and pale, china-colored outrages eyes…"

1940
Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1940). [Google books].
"They might have been a masonic lodge set suddenly down in Africa or China, holding a weekly meeting."

1943
Faulkner, William. My grandmother Millard. In : Story (March-April, 1943).
http://ia600204.us.archive.org/20/items/collectedstories030393mbp/collectedstories030393mbp.pdf.
"Except
it was the wrong one, he said. His eyes quilt looking like china."

1948
Faulkner, William. Intruder in the dust. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1948). [Google books].
"… as you might look at a string of letters in Russian or Chinese which someone you believed had just told you spelling your name…"
"… who will grasp this opportunity to vent on Sambo the whole sum of their ancestral horror and scorn and fear of Indian and Chinese and Mexican and Carib and Jew, you will force us the one out of that first random thousand…"

1950
Faulkner, William. The middle ground. In : Collected stories of William Faulkner. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1950).
http://ia600204.us.archive.org/20/items/collectedstories030393mbp/collectedstories030393mbp.pdf.
"It
had changed very little, and that which had altered was the part which her son knew nothing about, and that too had changed not at all in so long that she could not even remember now when she had added the last coin to the hoard. This was in a china vase on the mantel."

1954
Faulkner, William. A fable. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1954). [Google books].
"… savages and heathen Chinese will have the good roads and the schools and the cream separators and the automobiles…
… Senegalese and Moroccans and Kurds and Chinese and Malays and Indians – Polynesian Melanesian Mongol and Negro who couldn’t understand the password nor read the pass either…"

1962
Faulkner, William. The reivers : a reminiscence. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1962). [Google books].
"We went to his room. His lamp had flowers painted on the china shade…"

Mentioned People (1)

Faulkner, William  (New Albany, Miss. 1897-1962 Byhalia, Miss.) : Schriftsteller, Nobelpreisträger
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Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America