From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged
hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are "Snopes,
As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, "and
"Absalom, Absalom "
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 fifteen 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."
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