Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner [1961 / MODERN LIBRARY]

Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

HARDCOVER [1961] THE MODERN LIBRARY

In excellent condition.  Dust jacket has some extremely mild shelf wear and a hint of discoloration from age.  Book itself is excellent; like new with tanning to pages.  Small stamp on liner page inside cover. 

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, the 15 or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “A Rose for Emily,” the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in “Barn Burning,” about a son’s response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in “That Evening Sun.” These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, “the greatest artist the South has produced.”