William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375)
Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works
$74.22
- Hardcover
1150 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
Library of America caps its six-volume edition of William Faulkner’s works with a volume gathering of all the stories he collected in his lifetime, in corrected texts.
Faulkner called the short story “the most demanding form after poetry” and wrote to an editor that “even to a collection of short stories, form, integration, is as important as to a novel—an entity of its own, single, set for one pitch, contrapuntal in integration, toward one end, one finale.” Faulkner was a major pract…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537520 |
| Author: | William Faulkner, Theresa M. Towner |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1150 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 213mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
William Faulkner
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather’s bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.
His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.
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