Books written by William Faulkner

Knight's Gambit

Gavin Stevens, the wise student of crime and folkways of Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County, plays the major role in these six stories of violence.
Pylon: The Corrected Text

The story centers around a reporter following a crew of pilots and mechanics in town for an air show--particularly the tomboyish Laverne. The new Vintage edition of the corrected text.
Delphi Complete Works of William Faulkner (Illustrated)

Influenced by the works of Sherwood Anderson, Herman Melville and especially James Joyce, Faulkner blended the stream-of-consciousness technique with vibrant social history.
Go Down, Moses

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is ...
The Hamlet: The Corrected Text

Traces the growing power of Flem Snopes, a white-trash farmer, in the Mississippi town of Frenchman's Bend
A Fable

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1955.
Snopes

Includes the author's trilogy about a pioneer family, set in rural Mississippi
Tomorrow

THE STORY: In a rural area of the Deep South, the action begins with the arrival of a young lawyer who has just tried, and lost, his first case.
The Mansion

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. This completes the great trilogy of the Snopes family in Yoknapatawpha and traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family.
Collected Stories

In this extraordinary collection, Faulkner captures the bitter tensions of America's Deep South.
The Reivers: A Reminiscence

Relates the comic adventures of eleven-year-old Lucius Priest on the day he stole his grandfather's car to drive to Memphis
Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses ; Old Man ; The Bear

Contains the American novelist's greatest short novels: "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and "The Bear."
The Sound and the Fury

This edition follows the text corrected in 1984 by Noel Polk and corresponds as closely as possible to Faulkner's original intentions. Included also is the Appendix that Faulkner wrote for The Portable Faulkner in 1946.
Flags in the Dust

Returning to the Mississippi delta country after World War I, Bayard Sartoris tries in vain to withstand the influence of a proud and violent family.
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories

The hunter and the hunted are movingly portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives. Reprint.
The Bear

William Faulkner's short story "The Bear" was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and is considered one of the best short stories of the twentieth century.The piece is a coming-of-age tale that weaves ...
Requiem for a Nun

In order to save a nurse convicted of murder, Temple Stevens decides to confess that she killed her own daughter.
The Sound and the Fury

Oprah Book Club title. First pub. 1929. The spectacle of white disintegration shown through the decay of a gentle southern family.
As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner

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