Essential Faulkner

A collection of essential pieces by an American master *; ';A real contribution to the study of Faulkner's work.'Edmund Wilson In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry [...]
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A collection of essential pieces by an American master *; ';A real contribution to the study of Faulkner's work.'Edmund Wilson In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha legend than The Essential Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories ';The Bear,' ';Spotted Horses,' ';A Rose for Emily,' and ';Old Man,' among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the complete text of Faulkner's 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Malcolm Cowley's critical introduction was praised as ';splendid' by Faulkner himself. Also includes: ';A Justice' ';The Courthouse' (from Requiem for a Nun) ';Red Leaves' ';Was' (from Go Down, Moses) ';Raid' (from The Unvanquished) ';Wash' ';An Odor of Verbena' (fromThe Unvanquished) ';That Evening Sun' ';Ad Astra' ';Dilsey' (from The Sound and the Fury) ';Death Drag' ';Uncle Bud and the Three Madams' (from Sanctuary) ';Percy Grimm' (from Light in August) ';Delta Autumn' (from Go Down, Moses) ';The Jail' (from Requiem for a Nun)