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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- ASIN: 0679764038
- ISBN: 0679764038
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“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 writ... [Read More]
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
- UPC: 884157876417
- ASIN: 067973225X
- ISBN: 067973225X
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- UPC: 880792745071
- ASIN: 0375504524
- ISBN: 0375504524
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
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, ori... [Read More]
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A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)
- ASIN: 0307275329
- ISBN: 0307275329
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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... [Read More]
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
- ASIN: 0679732241
- ISBN: 0679732241
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (Library of America)
- ASIN: 0940450550
- ISBN: 0940450550
- Brand: Library of America
- Manufacturer: 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 vor... [Read More]
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Selected Short Stories (Modern Library)
- ASIN: 0679424784
- ISBN: 9780679424789
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: 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... [Read More]
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THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307946754
- ISBN: 0307946754
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“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... [Read More]
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Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
- ASIN: 0679732187
- ISBN: 0679732187
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“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 ... [Read More]
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Go Down, Moses
- ASIN: 0679732179
- ISBN: 9780679732174
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“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 ... [Read More]
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The Hamlet
- ASIN: 0679736530
- ISBN: 9780679736530
- Manufacturer: Vintage
The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on th... [Read More]
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Sanctuary: The Corrected Text
- ASIN: 0679748148
- ISBN: 9780679748144
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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.... [Read More]
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Barn Burning (Tale Blazers)
- ASIN: 0895986825
- ISBN: 0895986825
- Brand: Brand: Perfection Learning
- Manufacturer: Perfection Learning
Reprinted from Collected Stories of William Faulkner, by permission of Random House, Inc.
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Light in August
- ASIN: 0679732268
- ISBN: 9780679732266
- Brand: Vintage International Random House
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“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 persever... [Read More]
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The William Faulkner Audio Collection
- ASIN: 0060555009
- ISBN: 0060555009
- Manufacturer: Caedmon
William Faulkner never stood taller than five feet, six inches, but in the realm of American literature, he is a giant. More than simply a renowned Mississippi writer, the Nobel-Prize winning novelist and short story writer is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, one who transformed his "postage stamp" ... [Read More]
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Knight's Gambit (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307946797
- ISBN: 9780307946799
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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.
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As I Lay Dying (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
- ASIN: 0393931382
- ISBN: 0393931382
- Brand: Faulkner, William/ Gorra, Michael (EDT)
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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 int... [Read More]
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The Reivers
- ASIN: 0679741925
- ISBN: 0679741925
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grandfather’s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests’ black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and... [Read More]
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William Faulkner - American Author - Classroom Poster
- UPC: 799491508712
- ASIN: B0071BTF6G
- Brand: PosterEnvy
- Size: 12 x 18 Inch
- Manufacturer: PosterEnvy
William Faulkner - American Author - Classroom Poster 12" x 18" Classroom Poster Printed on High Quality Paper PosterEnvy EXCLUSIVE!
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Myself and the World: A Biography of William Faulkner
- ASIN: 1496805607
- ISBN: 1496805607
- Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
William Faulkner (1897-1962) once said of his novels and stories, "I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world." This biography provides an overview of the life and career of the famous author, demonstrating the interrelationships of that life, centered in Oxford, Mississippi, with the characters and events of his ficti... [Read More]
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