William Faulkner Books

Focusing on the artistry of the short story, this volume showcases William Faulkner's complete collected works, edited to reflect his original intentions. It includes his major collections, such as "These Thirteen" and "Knight's Gambit," along with notable stories like "A Rose for Emily" and "Barn Burning." The edition also features lesser-known works and Faulkner's autobiographical essay "Mississippi," alongside his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Enhanced by scholarly notes, this collection offers a comprehensive view of Faulkner's storytelling mastery.

The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity - sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve - and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it. This volume - the third in The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulkner's complete works - collects the novels written during this crucial and fascinating period in his career. The newly restored texts, based on Faulkner's manuscripts, typescripts, and proof sheets, are free of the changes introduced by the original editors and are faithful to the author's intentions. In the four works included here, Faulkner delved deeper into themes of race and religion, and furthered his experiments with fictional structure and narrative voice; defying the odds, he continued to break new ground in American fiction. Go Down, Mos

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 compress his epic vision into narratives of such grace and tragic intensity defines him as one of the finest and most original writers America has ever produced.

The collection features Gavin Stevens, a perceptive observer of crime and culture in Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County, as he navigates six gripping tales of violence. Each story delves into the complexities of human behavior and the darker aspects of society, revealing the intricate relationships and moral dilemmas faced by its characters. Through Stevens' insights, the narratives explore themes of justice, morality, and the impact of violence on community and identity.

"The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work."

Covers a 130-year period in the history of Yoknapatawpha county and its citizens as revealed by the author who was one of them

A sale of fiery wild ponies, which manage to escape their corral after they are sold, introduce Flem Snopes, the man behind the sale, to the town of Frenchman's Bend.

The Mansion completes Faulkner’s great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation.

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.

This is the second volume of Faulkner’s trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes’s ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and profundity.

Includes bibliographical references and index. UK/US

This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel, 'Sanctuary', was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in 'Sanctuary'. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. In an attempt to save her, Temple goes to see the judge to confess her own quilt. Told partly in prose, partly in play form, 'Requiem For A Nun' is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present.

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.”

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

'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. schovat popis

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and his famous "The Bear."

“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

In 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.

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, T

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction. This is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

Focusing on the criminal investigations led by Gavin Stevens, Yoknapatawpha's county attorney, this collection of six stories explores themes of justice versus law. Originally published in 1949, the first edition suffered from editorial inconsistencies and substantial cuts made by magazine editors. John N. Duvall's new edition restores over four thousand words using previously unknown typescripts, allowing for a more authentic reading experience. Duvall's introduction also examines the impact of detective fiction on Faulkner's readership and career.

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 twentieth century--is a coming-of-age tale that weaves together themes of family, race, and the taming of the wilderness, as the young main character learns to hunt and track the huge bear known as Old Ben. "Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid." This short work is part of Applewood's "American Roots," series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper's in 1939 and has since been widely anthologized. The story deals with class conflicts, the influence of fathers, and vengeance as viewed through the third-person perspective of a young, impressionable child. It is a prequel to The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion, the three novels make up the Snopes trilogy.

Traces the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother.

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, INTRUDER IN THE DUST is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murd

William Faulkner is one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century, but success was elusive with his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, in 1926. The promising young author had not yet achieved the reputation that would lead to the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes. Soldiers’ Pay reflects Faulkner’s gift for keen observations, embracing his Southern experience, as well as his experimental narrative techniques blended with literary modernism. He captures the post–World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil and explores the war’s emotional impact on three weary veterans and their hometown in Georgia.

“Full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.”—Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune A delightful surprise, Faulkner’s second novel introduces us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. This engaging, high-spirited novel—which Faulkner wrote “for the sake of writing because it was fun”—offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.

Old Man is something of an adventure story. When a flood ravages the countryside of the lower Mississippi, a convict finds himself adrift with a pregnant woman.

Exploring complex themes of race, identity, and morality, this novel delves into the turbulent social landscape of the American South. Faulkner's intricate narrative weaves together multiple perspectives, revealing the deep-seated tensions and contradictions within society. The characters grapple with their pasts and the weight of their choices, making for a provocative and thought-provoking read. Its bold exploration of controversial topics has sparked discussions and debates, solidifying its place in literary history.

Light in August , a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Роман «Поселок» — первая часть цикла романов американского писателя Уильяма Фолкнера (1897–1962) о жителях Йокнапатофы — вымышленного округа, который стал для писателя неиссякаемым источником тем, образов и сюжетов.

»Ein Glück, daß ich einen kühlen Kopf habe und nicht eingebildet bin«, schrieb der Vierunddreißigjährige an seine Frau Estelle, nachdem Hollywood ihn entdeckt hatte. Da war er schon ein berühmter Mann. Aus seiner Korrespondenz gewinnt man verblüffende Einsichten in den Menschen Faulkner – Autor, Ehegatte und Südstaatler der alten Schule –, der niemals aufhörte, sich über seine eigene Begabung zu wundern.

William Faulkner, der 1949 den Literaturnobelpreis erhielt, schuf mit dieser Sammlung von Kriminalgeschichten um Bezirksanwalt Gavin Stevens und seinen ihm istierenden Neffen Charles sechs spannende und atmosphärisch dichte Erzählungen.

Una de las novelas más representativas del Premio Nobel estadounidense destaca en su monumental obra. Entre lo más notable de Faulkner se encuentran las novelas del «ciclo de Yoknapatawpha», que fungen como fábulas sobre la vida en el sur de EE. UU. y el destino humano. La historia comienza con la llegada de varios miembros de la familia Snopes a la aldea de Jefferson, precedidos por rumores de venganzas extrañas en las granjas. Gradualmente, los Snopes se apoderan del pueblo de manera insidiosa, sorprendiendo e impotentizando a sus habitantes, llevándolos hacia el fracaso, la humillación e incluso la muerte. Reseñas destacan la grandeza de Faulkner, como Juan Carlos Onetti, quien expresa que leerlo puede hacer sentir que es inútil seguir escribiendo. Rodrigo Fresán menciona que nadie vuelve a ser el mismo después de leerlo. Eudora Welty señala que el mundo ficticio de Faulkner, con su tragedia y belleza, está vivo y será habitado por los lectores del futuro. La narrativa ofrece una mirada irónica a la tragedia clásica y un comentario mordaz sobre las pretensiones del sur antebellum y su decadencia tras la guerra y la Reconstrucción, centrándose en la ascensión de la familia Snopes en un pequeño pueblo construido sobre las ruinas de una plantación.

Quella della decadenza e sventura dei Compson, una grande famiglia del Sud americano alle soglie della Depressione, è una storia torbida e labirintica, eppure straordinariamente romanzesca. La giovane Caddy, nel racconto dei suoi tre diversissimi fratelli, diventa presenza candida e rassicurante, sorella ingegnosa, madre snaturata che abbandona la figlia. Ma Benjy, Quentin e Jason sono troppo coinvoltii negli avvenimenti per riuscire a fare chiarezza fino in fondo, e solo Dilsey, la cuoca negra, si rivelerà in grado di snodare la matassa familiare.

Dieser Band vereinigt in der Übertragung Arno Schmidts die ersten Prosastücke, die Faulkner 1925 in New Orleans unter dem Titel New Orleans Sketches und Aus dem Gesellschaftsleben von Chartres Street für Sherwood Andersons Zeitschrift »Double Dealer« schrieb. Man begegnet hier bereits Gestalten, die uns aus dem späteren Werk Faulkners bekannt sind: Außenseitern und Ausgestoßenen, die sich durch Stoizismus, kleinen Schwindel und großen Betrug zu behaupten suchen. »Was immer der Süden der Vereinigten Staaten war, was sich in ihm ereignete, welche Schufte und Chevaliers er hervorbrachte: Faulkners ruheloses, vorstellendes Gedächtnis fing alles ein, bewahrte es und brachte es an den Tag« Fritz J. Raddatz/Zeit Magazin, Hamburg

Die berühmtesten Erzählungen des Nobelpreisträgers (1950) William Faulkner - eine Auswahl, welche die ganze Breite seines Schaffens berücksichtigt: 'Rotes Laub', 'Eine Bärenjagd', 'Eine Rose für Emily', 'Brandstifter', 'Rauch' und viele andere mehr.

Роман, оказавший серьезное влияние на всю американскую литературу. Классика XX века. Глубокий Юг, каким видел, знал, любил и ненавидел его Фолкнер. Земля, где за тщательно побеленными фасадами старинных фермерских усадеб скрываются семейные тайны, кипят разрушительные страсти, ломаются судьбы и совершаются преступления… «Когда я умирала» — роман-одиссея о десяти днях жизни фермеров Бандренов, которые собрались на похороны матери семейства Адди. Уникальность произведения заключается в том, что в нем нет ни слова авторской речи. Весь сюжет представляет собой цепь монологов четырнадцати персонажей, среди которых и незабываемый монолог самой Адди…

Faulkners Erzählungen sind die beste Einführung in den Kosmos seiner großen Romane. Zunächst und vor allem aber sind sie unvergleichliche Abenteuer-, Haß-, Geld-, Jagd- oder Kriminalgeschichten. Bereits hier beschwört er das frühe 20. Jahrhundert in der Provinz Yoknapatawpha mit der Kreisstadt Jefferson am Mississippi.

Quella della decadenza e sventura dei Compson, una grande famiglia del Sud americano alle soglie della Depressione, è una storia torbida e labirintica, eppure straordinariamente romanzesca. La giovane Caddy, nel racconto dei suoi tre diversissimi fratelli, diventa presenza candida e rassicurante, sorella ingenerosa, madre snaturata che abbandona la figlia. Ma Benjy, Quentin e Jason sono troppo coinvolti negli avvenimenti per riuscire a far chiarezza fino in fondo, e solo Dilsey, la cuoca negra, si rivelerà in grado di snodare la matassa familiare.

Diese Auswahl umfasst sowohl Erzählungen, die von Faulkner veröffentlicht, jedoch in keiner seiner Kurzgeschichtensammlungen wieder gedruckt wurden, als auch solche, die er danach umarbeitete, um sie in spätere Bücher aufzunehmen; und solche, die bislang unveröffentlicht geblieben sind. Die Geschichten umfassen die unterschiedlichsten Stile und Themen und geben einen Einblick in sein ›work in progress‹.

Horace Benbow ist ein Rechtsanwalt mit einem großen Herzen. Er ist unterwegs nach Jefferson, als er in der Nähe der Old-Frenchman-Farm vom Verbrecher Popeye aufgehalten wird. Dieser befürchtet, dass das Geheimnis der in der Farm versteckten illegalen Schnapsbrennerei auffliegen könnte, und läßt Benbow erst weiterziehen, nachdem er dem Chef der Bande, Lee Goodwin, versprochen hat, dass es keine Anzeige geben wird. Doch Benbow wird noch einmal mit Goodwin zu tun bekommen, denn kurze Zeit später geschieht in der alten Farm ein Mord, der dem Bandenchef angelastet wird. Benbow aber glaubt an dessen Unschuld: Ein Schnapsbrenner sei er vielleicht, aber kein Mörder. Er nimmt sich des Falles an und deckt immer neue Einzelheiten jener tragischen Nacht auf, als der betrunkene Gowan Stevens mit seiner provozierend erotischen Freundin Temple Drake zur Brennerei gefahren war, um Alkohol zu kaufen und damit eine Spirale der Begierde, Furcht und Gewalttätigkeit in Gang gesetzt hatte