Falkner, William C

Here is a story of the Mississippi River South in its great days of the steamboat era, by one of its most distinguished citizens. Colonel Falkner, great-grandfather of William Faulkner, Nobel-prize novelist of our time, was a plantation owner, railroad builder, Civil War hero, writer and founder of schools. The White Rose of Memphis, first published in 1881, was the Gone with the Wind of that period; edition after edition kept appearing until about the time of World War I, when it went out of print; since then it has been unobtainable and legendary.

Вот рассказ о южной части реки Миссисипи в ее великие дни эры пароходов, написанный одним из ее самых выдающихся граждан. Полковник Фолкнер, прадед Уильяма Фолкнера, романиста нашего времени, удостоенного Нобелевской премии, был владел Развернуть