Books written by William Faulkner

Sanctuary

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 ...

Father Abraham

A sale of fiery wild ponies, which manage to escape their corral after they are sold, introduce Flem Snopes, the man behind the sale, to the town of Frenchman's Bend.

Soldiers' Pay

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.

Soldiers' Pay. Illustrated

Leading Out Loud: Strategies for Raising Your Leadership Voice

Designed for the emerging influencer or leader seeking a more significant role, Leading Out Loud provides proven content, insightful questions, and new concepts designed to take your organizational and personal effectiveness to the next ...

Light in August

Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, ...

Light in August

圣殿

Ben shu miao hui le yi fu bei bai huai le de nan fang she hui de chang jing. Miao xie er shi nian dai mei guo jin jiu qi...

The Art of Faulkner's Novels

Short Stories: Holograph Manuscripts and Transcripts

Soldiers' Pay: Preliminary typescript and miscellaneous pages

Faulkners first novel, published in 1926, is one of the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.

The Unvanquished

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The Unvanquished

The Sartoris family, who embody the antebellum ideal of Southern honor and its transformation through war, defeat, and Reconstruction, are the focal point of this outstanding novel.

"Unpublished" Stories, Typescripts, and Manuscripts

The Sound and the Fury

The novel has become a modernist classic. ~Ranked 6th on Modern Library's 100 best English-language Novels of the 20th Century ~34th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century ~William Faulkner is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

The Sound and the Fury

Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

As I Lay Dying

One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet...

Intruder in the Dust

An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man.

Intruder in The Dust by William Faulkner: Hardcover Book

Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner published it in 1948. The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man.

William Faulkner Manuscripts