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Faulkner Reader

by William Faulkner

Publisher: Random House

Hardcover, 682 pages

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From the dust jacket:

THE WORLD of William Faulkner, almost entirely concentrated within a county of his imagination, has become a commanding feature of the literary geography of America. In his twenty books he has portrayed the South in war and in peace, in reconstruction and regression, in novels and short stories, all interrelated to the cyclical life and history of the region of his creation.

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, Faulkner insisted in his acceptance speech in Stockholm that the problems of the human heart must always remain a formidable challenge to the writer. Again in his notable Foreword to this volume he summarizes his aim as a writer with a simple statement of purpose: "to uplift man's heart."

This volume is arranged to offer a generous and representative cross-section of William Faulkner's work. Its wide range of selection encompasses not only a full-length novel, three novellas and a substantial representation of his short stories, but also his famous Nobel Prize Address.

The novel chosen for inclusion is The Sound and the Fury, regarded by most critics as Faulkner's greatest achievement. There are three pieces longer than short stories and shorter than novels, generally called "novellas"–"The Bear," "Spotted Horses" and "The Old Man." Among the nine short stories are "A Rose for Emily," "Turnabout," "Dry September," "That Evening Sun" and "Barn Burning."

Gathered into this volume is the selected harvest of three decades of Faulkner's writings, and with it a summing-up, in the nature of a Foreword written especially for this book, in which William Faulkner for the first time declares his credo as a writer.

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