William Faulkner Books In Order

Sin and Salvation Books In Publication Order

  1. Sartoris (1929)
  2. The Sound and the Fury (1929)
  3. As I Lay Dying (1930)
  4. Sanctuary (1931)
  5. Light in August (1932)
  6. Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
  7. Requiem for a Nun (1950)

The Snopes Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hamlet (1940)
  2. The Town (1957)
  3. The Mansion (1959)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Soldiers’ Pay (1926)
  2. Mosquitoes (1927)
  3. Pylon (1935)
  4. The Unvanquished (1938)
  5. The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939)
  6. Intruder in the Dust (1948)
  7. A Fable (1954)
  8. Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954)
  9. The Reivers (1962)
  10. Flags in the Dust (1973)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. A Rose for Emily (1930)
  2. The Bear (1942)
  3. Mayday (1978)
  4. The Marionettes (1978)
  5. Barn Burning (1996)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Wishing Tree (1927)
  2. These 13 (1931)
  3. Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
  4. Barn Burning and other stories (1939)
  5. Go Down, Moses (1942)
  6. Knight’s Gambit (1949)
  7. Big Woods (1955)
  8. Selected Short Stories (1956)
  9. New Orleans Sketches (1957)
  10. Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
  11. Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960)
  12. Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967)
  13. Jealousy and Episode (1977)
  14. Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979)
  15. The Essential Faulkner (2013)
  16. Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. 50 Great American Short Stories (1963)
  3. The Best Horror Stories (1977)
  4. Magical Realist Fiction (1984)
  5. The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000)

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William Faulkner Books Overview

The Sound and the Fury

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 Minter’s 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 Faulkner s letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner s friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner’s 1933 introduction to the novel. ‘Cultural and Historical Contexts’ presents four different perspectives on the place of the American South in history. Taken together, these works by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warren provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel. ‘Criticism’ includes seventeen essays on The Sound and the Fury that collectively trace changes in the way we have viewed this novel over the last four decades. The critics are Jean Paul Sartre, Irving Howe, Ralph Ellison, Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, John T. Irwin, Myra Jehlen, Donald M. Kartiganer, David Minter, Warwick Wadlington, John T. Matthews, Thadious M. Davis, Wesley Morris and Barbara Alverson Morris, Minrose C. Gwin, Andr Bleikasten, and Philip M. Weinstein. A revised Selected Bibliography is also included.

As I Lay Dying

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 attention to As I Lay Dying s place in Faulkner s literary life. Contemporary Reception reprints American, English, and French reviews by Clifton Fadiman, Henry Nash Smith, Edwin Muir, and Maurice Coindreau, among others, along with Valery Larbaud s never before translated preface to the first French edition of the novel. The Writer and His Work examines Faulkner s claim to have written the novel in six weeks without changing a word. It includes his comments on the book s composition along with his later thoughts on and changing opinions of it, sample pages from the manuscript, his Nobel Prize address, and the little known short story in which he first used the title. Cultural Context reprints an essay by Carson McCullers and an excerpt from James Agee s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men along with other materials that address questions of Southern Agrarianism and the Southern grotesque. Criticism begins with the editor s introduction to As I Lay Dying s critical history and scholarly reception. Eleven major essays are provided by Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Calvin Bedient, Andr Bleikasten, Eric Sundquist, Stephen M. Ross, Doreen Fowler, Patrick O Donnell, Richard Gray, John Limon, and Donald M. Kartiganer. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Sanctuary

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 values and order. A sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil. Students of Faulkner have found an allegorical interpretation of ‘Sanctuary‘ as a comment on the degradation of old South’s social order by progressive modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co horts represent this hurling change that is corrupting the historic traditions of the South, symbolized by Horace Stevens, which are no longer able to protect the victimized Negro and poor white trash due to middle class apathy and inbred violence.

Light in August

One of William Faulkner’s most admired and accessible novels, Light in August reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove s resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner s most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, plagued by visions of Confederate horseme*n, and Joe Christmas, a ragged, itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters stories, Light in August brings to life Faulkner s imaginary South, one of literature s great invented landscapes, in all of its unerringly fascinating glory. Along with a new Foreword by C. E. Morgan, this edition reproduces the corrected text of Light in August as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom! Absalom! is William Faulkner’s major work his most important and ambitious contribution to American literature. In the dramatic texture of this story of the founding, flourishing and decay of the plantation of Sutpen’s Hundred, and of the family that demonic Stephen Sutpen brought into the world a generation before the Civil War, there rises the lament of the South for its own vanished splendor. From its magnificent and bold inception, when with his wild Negroes the founder of the great plantation appeared out of nowhere to seize his hundred square miles of land and build his mansion, through the destruction of the Civil War and its aftermath, and the drab beginnings of the new South, the narrative is colored by the author s glowing imagery, his command of a powerful and magical prose style. Beneath its brilliant surface and dark undercurrents, the novel sweeps backward and forward through time. The story in all its ramifications becomes crystallized in the mind of a relative of this strange family, young Quentin Compson, a Harvard student. At the terrifying and abrupt end of the tale there remain in the crumbling shell of the old house only the dying son of its builder, an ancient Negro woman who had been his slave, and the idiot mulatto youth who was to be the only direct descendant of the Sutpen blood. This edition is set from the first American edition of 1936 and commemorates the seventy fifth anniversary of Random House.

Requiem for a Nun

This sequel to Faulkner’s SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Hamlet

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 the ruins of a once stately plantation. Flem Snopes wily, energetic, a man of shady origins quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Town

This is the second volume of Faulkner’s trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post bellum South. Like its predecessor The Hamlet and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes’ ruthless struggle to take over The Town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and of profundity. From the Paperback edition.

The Mansion

This completes the great trilogy of the Snopes family in Yoknapatawpha and traces the downfall of this indomitable post bellum family.

Soldiers’ Pay

Faulkner’s first novel, published in 1926, is one of the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.

Mosquitoes

A delightful surprise, Faulkner wrote his second novel ‘for the sake of writing because it was fun.’Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game for Faulkner’s barbed wit in this engaging high spirited novel which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.’It approaches in the first half and reaches in the second half a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It is full of the fine kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.’ Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune

Pylon

The new Vintage edition of the corrected text.

The Unvanquished

Vintage Books a Division of Random House Edition September 1966 Drawings by Edward Shenton Publisher’s Note: The text of this edition of The Unvanquished has been reproduced photographically from, and is therefore identical with, a copy of thePublication date was February 15, 1938. Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Faulkner’s tenth book, The Unvanquished, focuses on the Sartoris family, who with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South’s traditions. Here the reader will meet Colonel Sartoris, the head of the family; his young son Bayard who finds an alternative to bloodshed; Ringo, a perceptive black child who is considered part of the family; independent, obstinate Cousin Drusilla who exchanges her dresses for a uniform; and Granny, the matriarch.

The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem

‘Between grief and nothing I will take grief’. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.

Intruder in the Dust

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black’s traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Fable

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, Faulkner’s works are without equal in our time and country. Robert Penn Warren No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. Eudora Welty

The Reivers

This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11 year old Lucius Priest and two of his family’s retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque.

Flags in the Dust

The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as SARTORIS.

A Rose for Emily

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.

Barn Burning

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Go Down, Moses

The annotation to Go Down, Moses illuminate family relationships, chronology, narrative voice, and the complexities of racial identity in the novel. The full breadth of the novel is explored in the commentary, from Indian history and traditions to an overview of the logging industry in Mississippi.

Big Woods

Faulkner was an avid hunter, as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The Big Woods is a collection of Faulkner’s best hunting stories. Included is his most famous hunting story, ‘The Bear’, together with ‘The Old People,’ ‘A Bear Hunt,’ and ‘Race at Morning.’ Together, these four stories are considered to be some of the finest hunting stories ever written. Each is introduced with a prelude that weaves these tales together into a modern American classic. In Big Woods, the author creates a variety of unforgetable figures: Sam Feathers the Indian guide, his bear dog Old Ben and the young boy. These unique characters and the tragic intensity of these narratives are magically melded in stories that are without equal. Brett Smith has created six original etchings especially for this edition. Each book will be printed on acid free paper, bound in fine cloth with a silk ribbon placeholder, and slipcased. The first printing will be limited to only 1,500 copies.

Selected Short Stories

First Modern Library Edition stated ‘First Printing’ on copyright page, 403 titles listed on verso of dustjacket. Modern Library No. 324. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Clean Kent illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean black top stained page edges. 306 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with slight wear to top and bottom spine edges. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.

New Orleans Sketches

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun, had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here in one volume are the pieces he wrote while in the French Quarter. These were published locally in the Times Picayune and in the Double Dealer, a ‘little magazine’ based in New Orleans. New Orleans Sketches broadcasts seeds that would take root in later works. In their themes and motifs these sketches and stories foreshadow the intense personal vision and style that would characterize Faulkner’s mature fiction. As his sketches take on parallels with Christian liturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy similar to Benjy Compson, they reveal evidence of his early literary sophistication. In praise of New Orleans Sketches Alfred Kazin wrote in the New York Times Book Review that ‘the interesting thing for us now, who can see in this book the outline of the writer Faulkner was to become, is that before he had published his first novel he had already determined certain main themes in his work.’ In his trail blazing introduction Carvel Collins, often called ‘Faulkner’s best informed critic,’ illuminates the period when the sketches were written as the time that Faulkner was making the transition from poet to novelist. ‘For the reader of Faulkner,’ Paul Engle wrote in the Chicago Tribune, ‘the book is indispensable. Its brilliant introduction…
is full both of helpful information…
and of fine insights.’ ‘We gain something more than a glimpse of the mind of a young genius asserting his power against a partially indifferent environment,’ states the Book Exchange London. ‘The long introduction…
must rank as a major literary contribution to our knowledge of an outstanding writer: perhaps the greatest of our times.’ Carvel Collins 1912 1990, one of the foremost authorities on Faulkner’s life and works, served on the faculties of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, and the University of Notre Dame, where he was the first to teach a course devoted to Faulkner’s writing.

Three Famous Short Novels

Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes ‘Spotted Horses,’ ‘Old Man,’ and his famous ‘The Bear.’

Marble Faun and a Green Bough

Scarce First Random House Edition, 1960. Ex library hardcover with dustjacket, usual ex library markings, stamps etc.

Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

These forty five stories include not only some of Faulkner’s best, but also what proved to be the testing ground for what latter became such major novels as THE UNVANQUISHED, THE HAMLET and GO DOWN MOSES.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

Magical Realist Fiction

This capacious 520 pages anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet’s companion, a student’s delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you’d take to a desert island!

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

In The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, best selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery expert Otto Penzler present an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from all reaches of the genre, this collection charts the mystery’s eminent history from the turn of the century puzzles of Futrelle, to the seminal pulp fiction of Hammett and Chandler, to the mystery story’s rise to legitimacy in the popular mind, a trend that has benefited masterly writers like Westlake, Hunter, and Grafton. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American crime fiction. Penzler, BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES series editor, and Hillerman, whose Leaphorn/Chee novels have won him multiple Edgar Awards and millions of devotees, winnowed this select group out of a thousand stories, drawing on sources as diverse as ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE and ESQUIRE, COLLIER’S and THE NEW YORKER. Giants of the genre abound Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Ellery Queen, Sara Paretsky, and others but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in suspense anthologies: William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyon, Harlan Ellison, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Mystery buffs and newcomers alike will delight in the thrilling stories and top notch writing of a hundred years’ worth of the finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing.

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