William Faulkner

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 with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure...

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected Short Stories One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years...

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. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last...

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. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfil her last...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom , and...

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most...

As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0812417143ISBN-13: 9780812417142Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 267Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 9391270786ISBN-13: 9789391270780Publisher: Mjp PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2023Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

"As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner is a haunting and profoundly introspective masterpiece that delves into the complex depths of the human psyche. Set in the impoverished and rural American South during the early 20th century, this novel follows the Bundren family as...

The hunter and the hunted are portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0679752528ISBN-13: 9780679752523Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/1994Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.21w x 0.66dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 07/01/1994 pg. 134Booklist 09/01/2004 pg. 52Publishers...

"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...

A selection of short stories by William Faulkner.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0756991552ISBN-13: 9780756991555Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 900Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.40w x 1.80d

Intended as a companion piece to "Leading Out Loud: Strategies for Raising Your Leadership Voice", this workbook can also act as a stand-alone mapping guide to formulate, articulate, and activate a leadership platform for both individuals and organizations This workbook will walk you through...

An essential collection of William Faulkner's mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God),...

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.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0307946762ISBN-13: 9780307946768Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/17/2012Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w...

"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...

At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racila injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0679736514ISBN-13: 9780679736516Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/1991Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x...

Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens'sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.Author: William FaulknerISBN-10: 0307946797ISBN-13: 9780307946799Publisher: VintageLanguage:...

Originally published in 1949, William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit is a collection of six stories written in the 1930s and 1940s that focus on the criminal investigations of Yoknapatawpha's long-time county attorney, Gavin Stevens--a man more interested in justice than the law. All previous and...

Faulkner's six dectective stories feature attorney Gavin Stevens, a recurring character from Faulkner's novels, as he investigates violent crimes. This newly restored edition presents the stories the way Faulkner intended them. Originally published in 1949, Knight's Gambit is a collection of six stories written...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom ,...

From the Nobel Prize winner--one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena...

""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 written novel delves into the complexities of love, duty, and the inevitable change brought...

William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise...

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 engaging, high-spirited tale--which Faulkner wrote "for the sake of writing because it was...

Faulkner's second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner's quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare...

Faulkner's second novel is a high-spirited satiric romp set on an ill-fated pleasure cruise out of New Orleans. Wealthy Mrs. Maurier, the widowed heiress of an old New Orleans family, likes to collect "artistic types." When she plans a multi-day outing on her yacht...

Faulkner's second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner's quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare...

Mosquitoes, a 1927 novel from celebrated author and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, takes place in New Orleans and follows a group of socialites on a yacht trip on Lake Pontchartrain. The characters, including the wealthy art patron Mrs. Maurier and the young artist...

In 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 contributed sketches to the University of...

One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries...

This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational, 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...

A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her...

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the...

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom , and Selected Short Stories Here, published in a single volume as he always...

William Faulkner is one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, yet success was elusive when he published his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, in 1926. Capturing the post-World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil, Faulkner explores the...

William Faulkner's first novel is one of the most compelling works of American fiction to emerge from the First World War. A wounded veteran's homecoming is at the center of Faulkner's first novel. Badly scarred in body and mind, and unable to remember much,...

Soldiers' Pay tells the story of a wounded aviator who returns home to a small town in Georgia after the end of the First World War. His company includes a veteran of the war, as well as a widow whose husband was killed during...

Before William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was the author of Soldiers' Pay, his first novel, published in 1926. Not as well known as his later works, Soldiers' Pay ventured into territory that would have been relatable for the era. World...

Faulkner's debut novel, Soldiers' Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran's homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers' return from war on the people--particularly the women--who were left behind.Author:...

Examining the reality of First World War aviators, this volume features William Faulkner's astonishing first novel, Soldiers' Pay, alongside the diary of an unknown veteran who died in action. William Faulkner's Soldiers' Pay was first published in 1926 and explores the life of a...

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 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...

"A real contribution to the study of Faulkner's work." --Edmund Wilson A Penguin Classic 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...

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis....

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound...

""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 cornstalks have an opinion on proper decorum. Follow the adventures (or misadventures) of Carol...

William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are...