The Faulkner Reader
The Sound and the Fury, Selections from Other Novels, Three Novellas, Nine Stories, The Nobel Prize Address, etc.
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A sweeping anthology of works by an American original, including the complete text of The Sound and the Fury, a foreword by the author, his Nobel Prize address, and a selection of brilliant novellas and short stories, including:
“The Bear” (from Go Down, Moses)
“Old Man” (from The Wild Palms)
“Spotted Horses” (from The Hamlet)
“A Rose for Emily”
“Barn Burning”
“Dry September”
“That Evening Sun”
“Turnabout”
“Shingles for the Lord”
“A Justice”
“Wash”
“An Odor of Verbena” (from The Unvanquished)
“Percy Grimm” (from Light in August)
“The Courthouse” (from Requiem for a Nun)
William Faulkner
William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American Southern literature, and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature made him the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the one hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century. Also on the list were Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932).
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