Selected Short Stories - (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by William Faulkner (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by the Modern Library, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1962 and 1993"--Colophon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are <i>Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, </i>and <i>Absalom, Absalom!</i></b> <p/>William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In "A Rose for Emily," the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in "Barn Burning," about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in "That Evening Sun." These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, "the greatest artist the South has produced." <p/><b>Including these stories: </b> <p/>"Barn Burning"<br> "Two Soldiers"<br> "A Rose for Emily"<br> "Dry September"<br> "That Evening Sun"<br> "Red Leaves"<br> "Lo!"<br> "Turnabout"<br> "Honor"<br> "There Was a Queen"<br> "Mountain Victory"<br> "Beyond"<br> "Race at Morning"</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels and with the subjects and characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In "A Rose for Emily", the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, murder, and implied necrophilia. The vicious Snopes family of The Hamlet trilogy turns up in "Barn Burning" (1938), about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. Other inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha County appearing here include Jason and Caddy Compson, childish witnesses to the terror of the pregnant black laundress in "That Evening Sun" (1930), who fears that her lover will murder her.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>William Faulkner</b> was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, <i>The Marble Faun</i> (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, <i>Soldier's Pay, </i>in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as <i>Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, </i>and <i>The Sound and the Fury, </i>Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, <i>A Fable</i> (1954) and <i>The Reivers</i> (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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