Best William Faulkner Short Stories - April 2024

Collected Stories of William Faulkner

“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 all the fear, bru... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679764038
• ASIN: 0679764038
• ISBN: 0679764038
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)

“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 Mississippi, a convict finds himself adrift with a pregnant woman. And The Bear, perhaps his best known shorter work, is the story of a boy’s coming... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307946754
• ASIN: 0307946754
• ISBN: 0307946754
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Selected Short Stories (Modern Library)

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces 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 explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “A Rose for Emily,�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679424784
• ASIN: 0679424784
• ISBN: 9780679424789
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition

The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Seán and introduced by his son Patrick, this collection includes the best of the well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early drafts, and notes that provide fascinating insight into the writing process of one of America’s greatest storytellers.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image... [Read More]

• ASIN: 147678762X
• ASIN: 147678762X
• ISBN: 147678762X
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Overstory: A Novel

• ASIN: B073VX7HT4
• ASIN: B073VX7HT4
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Forty-six stories never before published in any collection include twenty that were incorporated into longer works after magazine publication, eleven that appeared in periodicals, and fifteen never published at all

• ASIN: 0394400445
• ASIN: 0394400445
• ISBN: 0394400445
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Faulkner Reader: The Sound and the Fury, Selections from Other Novels, Three Novellas, Nine Stories, The Nobel Prize Address, etc.

• ASIN: B005DXOPRS
• ASIN: B005DXOPRS
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

• ASIN: 0684843323
• ASIN: 0684843323
• ISBN: 9780684843322
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Old Man and the Sea

• ASIN: B000FC0SH8
• ASIN: B000FC0SH8
• Manufacturer: Scribner

A Separate Peace

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743253973
• ASIN: 0743253973
• ISBN: 0743253973
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition (Penguin Classics)

Covers a 130-year period in the history of Yoknapatawpha county and its citizens as revealed by the author who was one of them

• ASIN: 0140150188
• ASIN: 0140150188
• ISBN: 0140150188
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

For Whom the Bell Tolls

• ASIN: B000FC0OOU
• ASIN: B000FC0OOU
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (O, the Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501126075
• ASIN: 1501126075
• ISBN: 1501126075
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.   Selections in Volume 1: "A Journey" by Edith Wharton - A woman tries to conceal the death of her... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00094F0AM
• ASIN: B00094F0AM
• Manufacturer: Audio Connoisseur

The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Offers forty-six stories, including twenty that were incorporated into longer works after magazine publication, eleven that appeared in periodicals, and fifteen never published at

• UPC: 464904
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner - eBook

This invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories

• UPC: 589672383
• Rating: 4.0

Collected Stories of William Faulkner

A selection of short stories by William

• UPC: 521125576
• Rating: 4.0

Selected Short Stories

Thirteen stories deal with small-town Southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and

• UPC: 382183
• Rating: 5.0

William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929 (LOA #164) : Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury

The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four full-length works of fiction, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that

• UPC: 4125490

Myself and the World : A Biography of William Faulkner

A concise, readable biography of the Nobel laureate who defined southern

• UPC: 49366283

One Matchless Time : A Life of William Faulkner

9780060935559

• UPC: 25954821
• Rating: 4.333

William Faulkner : The Abstract and the Actual

Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writer's fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much

• UPC: 42369214
• Rating: 4.0

The William Faulkner Audio Collection (Audiobook)

For the first time on CD, this collection features acclaimed actors reading Faulkner's short stories. Also includes a historic recording of Faulkner reading his 1949 Nobel acceptance speech and excerpts from "As I Lay Dying,

• UPC: 25246171
• Rating: 4.0

BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1943 - FIRST EDITION FEATURING FAULKNER'S "THE BEAR"

• UPC: 252693015406
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 250 USD

BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1943 - FIRST PRINTING FEATURING FAULKNER'S THE BEAR

• UPC: 264474566889
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 44 USD

Edward J O'Brien, Peter Neagoe / Best Short Stories 1932 1st Edition

• UPC: 274063830294
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 86 USD

Best Horror Stories by Anthology Hardback Book The Fast Free Shipping

• UPC: 382276389094
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 7 USD