Sanctuary
| dc.contributor | Library, of America |
| dc.contributor.author | Faulkner, William |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:25Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:25Z |
| dc.date.created | 1931 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1563 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1563 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1563 |
| dc.description.abstract | SGML-tagged version |
| dc.format.extent | Text data A unspecified offline |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.title | Sanctuary |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 469083 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Author>Faulkner, William</Author>
<Title>Sanctuary</Title>
<Edition>Novels, 1930-1935. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1931</Date>
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<p>From beyond the screen of bushes which surrounded the
spring, Popeye watched the man drinking. A faint path led
from the road to the spring. Popeye watched the man -- a
tall, thin man, hatless, in worn gray flannel trousers and
carrying a tweed coat over his arm -- emerge from the path
and kneel to drink from the spring.
<p>The spring welled up at the root of a beech tree and
flowed away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand. It was
surrounded by a thick growth of cane and brier, of cypress
and gum in which broken sunlight lay sourceless. Somewhere,
hid-den and secret yet nearby, a bird sang three notes and
ceased._In the spring the drinking man leaned his fac . . .
