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1. A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah’s Book Club) (2005)
This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members–including Addie herself–the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930. First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling,” the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers–the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. , a novel about hopeful…
2. Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1995)
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book AwardForty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and…
3. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (1991)
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos….
4. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text (1991)
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. 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.“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not…
5. Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text (1991)
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons…
6. Light in August (1991)
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner 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, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen;…
7. Sanctuary: The Corrected Text (1993)
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 Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held….
8. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, William [W. W. Norton & Company, 2009] ( Paperback ) [Paperback] ()
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, William [W. W. Norton & Company, 2009] ( Paperback ) [Paperback]…
9. The Unvanquished (1990)
Unvanquished by William Faulkner. Vintage Books,1990…
10. The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics) (2003)
In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner’s vision than The Portable Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories “The…
11. The Sound and the Fury (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) (2014)
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.” ―William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner’s provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel’s contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously…
Best Faulkner Books You Should Read
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Meant to Be: Embracing my Plan B and finding a different path to family
Author(s): Lisa Faulkner
Publisher: Ebury Press, Year: 2019, Size: 1 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2423222
Our New Normal
Author(s): Colleen Faulkner
Publisher: Kensington Books, Year: 2019, Size: 723 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2425389
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book
Author(s): Andrew Faulkner, Conrad Chavez
Publisher: Adobe Press, Year: 2018, Size: 31 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2169218
9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success
Author(s): Harris Faulkner
Publisher: Harper, Year: 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2226037
Queering Families, Schooling Publics: Keywords
Author(s): Anne M. Harris; Stacy Holman Jones; Sandra L. Faulkner; Eloise D. Brook
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2278178
A Radical History of the World
Author(s): Neil Faulkner
Publisher: Pluto Press, Year: 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2301959
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release)
Author(s): Andrew Faulkner, Conrad Chavez
Publisher: Adobe Press, Year: 2018, Size: 29 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2363678
William Faulkner: A Life through Novels
Author(s): André Bleikasten
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Year: 2017, Size: 1 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 1637024
The philosophy of trust
Author(s): Paul Faulkner, Thomas Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2017, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 1680489
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