"“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the F ..."
As I Lay Dying(Reprint) The Corrected Text by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 267 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73225-9, ISBN: 0-679-73225-X
"“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 Addi ..."
"“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 m ..."
"In this feverishly beautiful novel—originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner, and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectab ..."
Go Down, Moses(Reprint) by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 365 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73217-4, ISBN: 0-679-73217-9
"“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. 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 composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner exam ..."
Snopes A Trilogy (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by WilliamFaulkner, George Garrett, H.B. Faulkner Hardcover, 1,072 Pages, Published 1994 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-60092-3, ISBN: 0-679-60092-2
"From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesHere, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner’s famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author’ ..."
The Unvanquished(1st Edition) The Corrected Text by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73652-3, ISBN: 0-679-73652-2
"“I am Martha Habersham,” Mrs Habersham said. “I am a neighbor and I hope to
be a friend.” And then she said, “You poor child.” We just looked at her; when
Drusilla finally spoke, she sounded like Ringo and I would when Father would
say ..."
THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS(Intl. Edition) Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International) by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94675-1, ISBN: 0-307-94675-4
"“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” —William Faulkner These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the “cold practicality” of women against the boyish folly of men. Old Man is something of an adventure story. When a flood ravages the countryside of the lower M ..."
"The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thoug ..."
Sanctuary by WilliamFaulkner, Noel Polk Paperback, 341 Pages, Published 1987 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74744-6, ISBN: 0-394-74744-5
"First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social ..."
"The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thoug ..."
Flags in the Dust (Vintage International) by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94676-8, ISBN: 0-307-94676-2
""The complete text, published for the first time in 1973, of Faulkner's third novel, written when he was twenty-nine, which appeared, with his reluctant consent, in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris."--P. [4] of cover."
The Town (Vintage International) by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94681-2, ISBN: 0-307-94681-9
"Gowan dicln't know what it was. It was like something Uncle Gavin had to tell, but
it was so funny that his main job in telling it was to keep it from being as funny as
it really was, because if he ever let it be as funny as it really was, everybody and
himself too would be laughing so hard they couldn't hear him. And Mother not
eating either now: just sitting there perfectly still, watching Uncle Gavin, until at
last Grandfather t ..."
"Long been recognized not only as one of William Faulkner’s greatest works, but also as the most accessible of his major novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra that carefully frames the issues presented, with particular atten ..."
Soldier's Pay(Updated) by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928282-2, ISBN: 0-09-928282-8
"Unlike his later books, this post-war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart is set in Georgia, but Faulkner's powerful; depiction of the south, and his extraordinary ..."
As I Lay Dying(1st Edition) The Corrected Text (Modern Library) As I Lay Dying by WilliamFaulkner, E.L. Doctorow Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Modern Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50452-5, ISBN: 0-375-50452-4
"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner also available are "Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, "and "Selected Short Stories" One of William Faulkner s finest novels, "As I Lay Dying, " originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The ..."
Sound and the Fury, The(1st Edition) (MAXNotes Literature Guides) by Boria Sax, WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1996 by Research & Education Association Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-87891-047-2, ISBN: 0-87891-047-6
"REA's MAXnotes for William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and que ..."
Sanctuary The Corrected Text by WilliamFaulkner Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1993 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74814-4, ISBN: 0-679-74814-8
"First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social ..."
"The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minterâs annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions."Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulknerâs letters, excerpts from ..."