Books written by William Faulkner

Poesía reunida: El fauno de mármol ; Una rama verde ; Poemas de Misisipi ; Helen ; Un cortejo

Poesía reunida: El fauno de mármol ; Una rama verde ; Poemas de Misisipi ; Helen ; Un cortejo
The Sound And The Fury

Arguably one of the greatest novels written in modern times, William Faulkner’s masterpiece The Sound and the Fury is the story of the Compsons, a traditional upper-class family in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, who are on the brink ...
The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes." --William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
El ruido y la furia / 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.
The Sound and the Fury

Arguably one of the greatest novels written in modern times, William Faulkner’s masterpiece The Sound and the Fury is the story of the Compsons, a traditional upper-class family in Yoknapatawpha...
The Wishing Tree

A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many surprising and magical adventures.
Light in August

The novel is set in the American South during prohibition and features an ensemble cast of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: honest and brave Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely ...
As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.The title...
The Hamlet

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and ...
Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

So she had not heard Mrs Mahon until the other touched her shoulder. (I would have cured him! If they had just let me marry him instead of her!) At the touch Emmy raised her swollen, blurred face, swollen because she couldn't seem to ...
Light in August

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study...
Una rosa per Emily

Una rosa per Emily
喧哗与骚动

喧哗与骚动
The Road to Glory: A Screenplay

This film script created by Joel Sayre and William Faulkner with Nunnally Johnson, written because Darryl F. Zanuck had acquired the rights to a French film, Les Croix de Bois...
Requiem For A Nun

It was adapted for theater in 1956 by Albert Camus, who also wrote the preface to the French translation of the novel.
Requiem for a Nun

Requiem for a Nun
Requiem for a Nun

Switching between narrative prose and play script, this is Faulkner's haunting sequel to his earlier bestseller, Sanctuary.
Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles

Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles
William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375)

This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read.
Absalom, Absalom!

Although his grand design is ultimately destroyed by his own sons, a century later the figure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Quentin Compson, who is obsessed with his family legacy and that of the Old South. “Faulkner’s novels have ...