The Portable Faulkner

This is the best comprehensive cross section of Faulkner's writing in one volume. By means of stories and episodes from ten of his books, it offers a panorama of life in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi- Faulkner's mythical kingdom- from the time of the first white settlers to the age of neon and nylon. It includes three stories almost of novel length: "The Bear," "Spotted Horses," and "Old Man."Besides the material in the original volume, and besides the indispensable Nobel Prize Address, this edition includes "The Courthouse" and "The Jail," two long stories in which Faulkner adds episodes and characters to his Yoknapatawpha legend.