Best William Faulkner Novel - April 2024

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

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

• ASIN: B01N4VW75U
• ASIN: B01N4VW75U
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom 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 StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375504524
• UPC: 880792745071
• ASIN: 0375504524
• ISBN: 0375504524
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

• ASIN: 0679732241
• ASIN: 0679732241
• ISBN: 0679732241
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Overstory: A Novel

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

William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (Library of America)

The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future.In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Quentin Compson descends into a vortex of images, voices, passions, and doomed desires as he and his Harvard roommate re-create the story of Thomas Sutpen and the insane ambitions, romantic hopes, and distortions of honor and conscience that trap Sutpen and those around him, until the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0940450550
• ASIN: 0940450550
• ISBN: 0940450550
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B004JHYRMW
• ASIN: B004JHYRMW
• Manufacturer: Vintage

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)

The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.Titles include: As I Lay DyingThis 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.The Sound and the FuryFirst published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling,” the bea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307275329
• ASIN: 0307275329
• ISBN: 0307275329
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text

“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 destroyed him... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679732187
• ASIN: 0679732187
• ISBN: 0679732187
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Sanctuary: The Corrected Text

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.

• ASIN: 0679748148
• ASIN: 0679748148
• ISBN: 9780679748144
• Manufacturer: Vintage

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

These Truths: A History of the United States

• ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
• ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family (Vintage International Book 2)

• ASIN: B004JHYSIA
• ASIN: B004JHYSIA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Knight's Gambit (Vintage International)

Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens’sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.

• ASIN: 0307946797
• ASIN: 0307946797
• ISBN: 9780307946799
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Read Everything Quote by William Faulkner, Engraved Wooden Bookmark with Tassel - Search B07WFXPKKM to See Personalized Version

Handmade from the finest high grade hand-selected sustainably harvested un-stained hardwoods. This distinctive bookmark features beautiful natural grain cherry in the center, bordered along both sides by intricately accented inlays made from a variety of hardwood combinations including; walnut, maple, rosewood and other eco-friendly domestic and exotic natural woods. The complimenting inlay and border woods will vary from one bookmark to the next. All of our wood bookmarks are 100% handmade in Washington state using our own 25 step handcrafted woodworking process that produces heirloom quality... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079DYZCSL
• ASIN: B079DYZCSL
• Brand: Mitercraft
• Manufacturer: Mitercraft, Inc.

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

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

The Sound and the Fury : The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix

Depicts the troubled childhood of Jason, Quentin, Caddy, and Benjy Compson, members of a southern

• UPC: 380994
• Rating: 4.074

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

The Portable Faulkner

In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene

• UPC: 2001804
• Rating: 5.0

William Faulkner Novels 1942-1954 (LOA #73) : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable

Gathering four works from a crucial period in the career of a Nobel Prize-winning author, an authoritative edition features restored texts of Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust; Requiem for a Nun; and A

• UPC: 204874
• Rating: 4.0

William Faulkner Novels 1936-1940 (LOA #48) : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet

A young college student recreates his Southern past, the Sartoris family endures the trials of the Civil War, fugitives flee to safety, and the Snopes family uses low cunning to change their lot in

• UPC: 204908
• Rating: 5.0

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

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

Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner

Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner's historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including

• UPC: 694168238

Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Light in August by William Faulkner (2002,...

• UPC: 382927816102
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD

As I Lay Dying [Modern Library 100 Best Novels]

• UPC: 402044514794
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

Modern Library 100 Best Novels: LIGHT IN AUGUST by WILLIAM FAULKNER

• UPC: 292806273564
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 12 USD