The Wishing Tree (Faulkner book)
The Wishing Tree is a 1927 children's book by William Faulkner.
The plot is written as a morality tale.
Faulkner wrote this book for Victoria Franklin, daughter of his sweetheart Estelle Oldham (whom he later married).[1]
Bibliography
- Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. "A Textual History of Faulkner's 'The Wishing-Tree' and 'The Wishing Tree'." Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Eight. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1985. 330-374
gollark: Stuff like the proof of Fermat's last theorem required connecting together a bunch of disconnected-looking areas of maths in very clever ways. There's more to that than just "practice", by most definitions of practice.
gollark: If you want to solve "the most difficult solvable equation in the world" you're probably going to have to come up with a lot of new techniques.
gollark: Practising stuff will make you better at what you're already able to do mostly.
gollark: No you won't.
gollark: Well, some maths at school etc. is like that, but it isn't real maths™.
References
- Popova, Maria (28 Dec 2012). The Strange Story of William Faulkner’s Only Children’s Book. Brain pickings..
External links
- Blog with original images from The Wishing Tree (in Spanish)
- Review of the book (in Spanish)
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