"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 Award
Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer
who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing
an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives,
Faulkner's stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep
strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and
tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in
Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during
World War I. They are populated by such characters as the
Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as
by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in
these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.
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