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The Bear, novelette by William Faulkner, early versions of which first appeared as “Lion” in Harper’s Magazine of December 1935 and as “The Bear” in The Saturday Evening Post in 1942 before it was published that same year as one of the seven chapters in the novel Go Down, Moses. Critical interpretations of the story vary depending upon whether it is judged as an independent work or as a chapter in the larger novel. “The Bear,” set in the late 19th century, is a hunting story told from the perspective of Isaac (“Ike”) McCaslin, a young man from an old ...(100 of 179 words)

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