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Selected short stories of William Faulkner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 1993.Description: xi, 310 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0679424784
  • 9780679424789
  • 9780307793560
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.52
LOC classification:
  • PS 3511 F263s 1993
Contents:
Barn burning -- Two soldiers -- A rose for Emily -- Dry September -- That evening sun -- Red leaves -- Lo! -- Turnabout -- Honor -- There was a queen -- Mountain victory -- Beyond -- Race at morning.
Summary: Thirteen stories deal with small town southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and arson. 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.
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PS 3511 F263m 1989 Mientras agonizo / PS 3511 F263s 1983 El sonido y la furia / PS 3511 F263s 1990 The sound and the fury : the corrected text / PS 3511 F263s 1993 Selected short stories of William Faulkner PS 3511 F263s 1997 Si yo amaneciera otra vez / PS 3511 F553f 1985 F. Scott Fitzgerald on writing / PS 3511 F553g 1994 The great Gatsby /

Originally published in Modern Library in 1962.

Barn burning -- Two soldiers -- A rose for Emily -- Dry September -- That evening sun -- Red leaves -- Lo! -- Turnabout -- Honor -- There was a queen -- Mountain victory -- Beyond -- Race at morning.

Thirteen stories deal with small town southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and arson. 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.

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