The Reivers
The Reivers is a picaresque about three improbable automobile thieves from rural Mississippi, and it is one of Faulkner's humorous classics. Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, persuades eleven-year-old Lucius... See More
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(313 reviews)
Quick ViewThe Reivers is a picaresque about three improbable automobile thieves from rural Mississippi, and it is one of Faulkner's humorous classics. Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, persuades eleven-year-old Lucius... See More
(222 reviews)
Quick ViewThe Unvanquished is set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the Sartoris family, who represent the best of the Old South's traditions with their code of personal responsibility and courage. The... See More
(34 reviews)
Quick ViewSeven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their... See More
(395 reviews)
Quick ViewThe master of the short tale was William Faulkner. The majority of the pieces in this collection date from his most productive period as a writer, almost fifteen years beginning in 1929, when he released The Sound and the... See More
(33 reviews)
Quick ViewThe masterwork by Faulkner serves as the book's epilogue. These three books allow us to follow Faulkner's remarkable development as he learns and perfects the technique and subject matter that will become the foundation of... See More
(1,157 review)
Quick ViewFirst published in 1932, 'Light in August' is a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with optimistic perseverance in the face of mortality, written by William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most... See More
(3,697 reviews)
Quick ViewOriginally published in 1930, 'As I Lay Dying' is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama by William Faulkner, one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, who is... See More
(29 reviews)
Quick ViewFaulkner's famous tragic narrative of the Bundren family's trek across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother, is a true 20th-century masterpiece. In terms of organisation, language, and drama, As... See More
(221 reviews)
Quick ViewIn a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. The characters are largely based on Faulkner's own family; in... See More
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Quick ViewFaulkner's prolific publication history began at the age of 16 with poems and sketches for the Ole Miss campus newspaper, The Mississippian. The author continued to contribute to the publication throughout his student days... See More
(146 reviews)
Quick ViewA group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers... See More
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Quick View'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads... See More
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Quick ViewFaulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. 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 age... See More
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Quick ViewAn elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who... See More
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Quick ViewSpolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most... See More
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Quick ViewA landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in... See More
(152 reviews)
Quick View'Between grief and nothing I will take grief' In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In... See More
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Quick ViewRest in peace -- or not? The death and burial of Addie Bundren is taken by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. But the task is much more difficult than... See More
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Quick ViewThis fascinating parody of Miguel Covarrubias' The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans features drawings of prominent characters from caricaturist and famed silver designer William Spratling. It also includes a... See More
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Quick ViewThis postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor... See More
(387 reviews)
Quick ViewThis is a collection of the very best of William Faulkner's short stories. Included are classics of short-form fiction such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Faulkner's ability to... See More
(200 reviews)
Quick ViewIn Faulkner style of the unstructured modernist narrative that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, delve into the themes of race, sex, class and religion in the 20th century American South. This novel... See More
(150 reviews)
Quick ViewThe short tale A Rose for Emily was first published on April 30, 1930, by American author William Faulkner. This narrative is set in Faulkner's fictional city of Jefferson, Mississippi, in his fictional county of... See More
(23 reviews)
Quick ViewA 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... See More
(127 reviews)
Quick ViewThe complete text, published for the first time in 1973, of Faulkner's third novel, written when he was twenty-nine, which appeared, with his reluctant consent, in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris. See More
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Quick ViewIn 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had... See More
(48 reviews)
Quick ViewThis invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its... See More
(65 reviews)
Quick ViewHere is a classic collection from one of America's greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of "Turn About," which derives from the time of... See More
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Quick ViewThe death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are... See More