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: Or even a test society at all, since people are bad about this.
gollark: It's annoying that in politics and social science and economics we can't yet just spin up a test society and run it at 100x speed or something to see what happens if you change a thing.
gollark: Based on what?
gollark: I mean, Western-ish societies *do* it, that doesn't make it *demonstrably optimal*.
gollark: Proven *how*?
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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