Collected Stories of William Faulkner

“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.

• Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
• Go Down, Moses
• Light in August
• Sanctuary: The Corrected Text
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition
• THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)
• The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
• A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)
• The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text