The Essential Faulkner
A collection of essential pieces by an American master • “A real contribution to the study of Faulkner’s work.”—Edmund Wilson
In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha legend than The Essential Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories “The Bear,” “Spotted Horses,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “Old Man,” among others; a…
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January 2, 2013William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction…
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner; Introduction by Ayana Mathis
Knight's Gambit
William Faulkner Edited and Introduced by John N. Duvall
Mosquitoes
William Faulkner
Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner
Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner
Collected Stories
William Faulkner
These 13
William Faulkner
The Essential Faulkner
William Faulkner
The Wishing Tree
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
William Faulkner
Flags in the Dust
William Faulkner
Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner
The Marble Faun and A Green Bough
William Faulkner