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A Fable. A Fable is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". [2] It won the Pulitzer Prize [3] and the National Book Award. [4]
A Fable, or as I like to call it, World War Jesus, is William Faulkner’s re-telling of the Passion of Christ set in the trenches of the first World War. Winner of both the 1955 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, this book is rather opaque and obfuscating, even for Faulkner, while written in his signature, robust style of lengthy ...
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A fable is a short story with animals or other creatures that act like humans and teach a moral lesson. Learn about the origins and development of fable in Western and Eastern literature, from Aesop to Orwell.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 4, 2019 · A fable is a short story with a moral lesson, often featuring animals as characters. Learn about the origin, structure and types of fables, and read some famous examples from Aesop, Thurber and Orwell.
- Richard Nordquist
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.
A Fable is a 1954 novel by William Faulkner. Set during World War I, the plot follows the sudden outbreak of peace along the western front. The characters are largely analogous to the biblical story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The novel won numerous prizes on release, including the 1955 Pulitzer Prize.
About A Fable. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and ...
