Temple

Author: [US] Faulkner / Tao Jie
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The Temple depicts a corrupted Southern society, ranking as one of Faulkner's most powerful works exposing and condemning the ugly realities of the American South. The novel's plot is dark and violent, portraying the Prohibition era in the 1920s when a gang of bootleggers led by Gin-Eye terrorized a Southern town. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, the female college student and was brutally raped. Later, Gin-Eye sent her to a brothel in Fitchburg. Gin-Eye committed murder and framed Under-Dewin. The lawyer persuaded to testify in court, but she had already been driven mad by Gin-Eye's. Under-Dewin was still sentenced to death and was eventually burned alive by a mob. The escaped Gin-Eye was also sentenced to death for a murder he had not participated in.