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William Faulkner
Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, ‘As I Lay Dying’ is a true 20th-century classic.
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Contains the American novelist’s greatest short novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, and The Bear.
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Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of…
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Includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner’s compassionate understanding of the Deep South.
A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to…
Translation of The sound and the fury, A1928.
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El Ruido y la Furia relata la degeneracion progresiva de la familia Compson, sus secretos y las relaciones de amor y odio que la sostienen y destruyen.
"A fascinating glimpse of the author as a young artist, Faulkner's sophomore novel, Mosquitoes (1927), introduces us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans…
This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family’s retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for…
This sequel to Faulkner’s Sanctuary, written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in the first book.
""Main Street,"" the classic novel by Sinclair Lewis, isn't just a SINCLAIR LEWIS book - it's a one-way ticket to Gopher Prairie, a town so quintessentially Midwestern that even the…
""Explore the intricate tapestry of early 20th-century Europe through the eyes of Ford Madox Ford in 'Some Do Not...', the first volume of his acclaimed 'Parade's End' series. This masterfully…
Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game…
Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & Liveright and is the…
A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. The Sound and the Fury…
Set in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seven interrelated stories deal with the complex, changing relationships between Blacks and whites and between man and nature.
William Faulkner’s short story The Bear was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The piece–considered one of the best short stories of the…
The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as SARTORIS.
The 2nd vol. of the author’s trilogy of the Snopes family –T.p. verso.
This completes the great trilogy of the Snopes family in Yoknapatawpha and traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family.
Faulkner, ademas de haber sido el innovador de una forma de narrar que ha infl uido poderosamente en las generaciones que le han continuado, fue el cronista de los mas…
The son of a Southern colonel becomes involved in the family’s struggle to maintain the old order during the Civil War era.
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife, and mother. Considered one of the most influential…
Pylon is one of few works of Faulkner that occurs outside his usual setting of Mississippi. The story centers around a reporter following a crew of pilots and mechanics in…
Recounts the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother, through the eyes of each of the family members.
"Capturing the post-World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil, William Faulkner explores the war's emotional impact on three weary veterans and their Southern hometown in Georgia"--
The ever-prolific author began contributing poems and sketches to the University of Mississippi’s literary magazine at the age of 16. These early works reflect the growing refinement of his voice…
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The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America’s Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of…
Full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen. -Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune
A deft hand has woven this narrative… . This book rings true. -New York Times
Thirteen stories deal with small-town Southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and arson.
This collection arranges Faulkner’s stories from Yoknapatawpha County into The Country , The Village , The Wilderness , The Wasteland , The Middle Ground and Beyond .
Capturing the post-World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil, William Faulkner explores the war’s emotional impact on three weary veterans and their Southern hometown in Georgia.
Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community.
This narrative chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, who struggles to articulate his vision of life. William Faulkner is the author of As…
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly…
Tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded pursuit of his grand design–to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830–which is ultimately destroyed by his own sons.
Retells the tragic times of the Compson family, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their Black servant.
In a novel about hopeless perseverance in the face of mortality, guileless Lena Grove searches for the father of her unborn child, Reverend Hightower is plagued by visions of Confederate…
John T. Matthews
Presents an account of William Faulkner’s literary career, novels, and key short stories. This book offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge…
Michael Gorra (Smith College)
Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.
Michael Gorra
How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century…
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the best critical essays on William Faulkner’s…
Arthur F. Kinney
This study gathers critical essays - from the first publications to the most recent thought - on the Sutpen grouping of Faulkner’s fiction.