Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (Modern Library) (Hardcover)

by William Faulkner (Author) "The store in which the Justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese..." (more)
Key Phrases: stiff foot, good gad, Mister Ernest, Miss Emily, Colonel Sartoris (more...)

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From the Back Cover
"Faulkner is the greatest artist the South has produced."

--Ralph Ellison


Includes

Honor

There Was a Queen
Mountain Victory

There Was a Queen
Mountain Victory

Mountain Victory
Beyond
Race at Morning
Beyond
Race at Morning
Barn Burning
Two Soldiers
A Rose for Emily
Dry September
That Evening Sun
Red Leaves
Lo!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Modern Library (May 18, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679424784
• ISBN-13: 978-0679424789
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,428 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHO'S AFRAID OF WILLIAM FAULKNER?, January 13, 2002

By	MOVIE MAVEN (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Faulkner scares readers. Before I read, re-read and loved "Light in August," I had tried books like "Absalom, Absalom" and "The Sound and The Fury" countless times only to get bogged down in the convoluted grammar and personal symbolism as well as the dialogue. For some reason, when I was ready to really read and concentrate, it was certainly not easy, but it was a great, distinct pleasure....one that has stayed with me. Faulkner is, as novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison calls him, "...the greatest artist the South has produced."

This Modern Library compilation of some of Faulkner's short stories is a perfect place to start to read this author, or to keep returning for his keen insights into the heart and nature of the Southerners he created from the Southerners he knew. There are thirteen stories here and they include one of Faulkner's most famous, "A Rose For Emily" a tale of great love and, perhaps, necrophilia. My personal favorite, depressingly sad though it is, is "Dry September" which tells of the extreme violence not only of small town whites to blacks but of whites to whites. Every one of these superb stories is a gem, masterfully written. Most were intended for magazines and so are much more straight forward and "simple" than the novels.

My only complaint and it is with Modern Library, is that, except in two cases, we are not told when Faulkner wrote the stories nor when they were published. Even so, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A life cannot be complete without Faulkner--, July 19, 2006

By	Mr. Burke (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews

Since reading "A Rose for Emily" as a boy, I have been hooked on Faulkner. I kept a worn out copy on hand to show to my teachers who accused me of using run-on sentences (some of his sentences took an entire page.) He is a true master and when I feel homesick, after being too long in some foreign country, I read a Faulkner story and remember the South where I grew up.

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." --W. Faulkner

"Faulkner is the greatest artist the South has produced."
--Ralph Ellison

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatness of the long- distance runner, March 15, 2006

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Just as most athletes excel in one particular event, so many writers find their greatest work in one genre , primarily. Faulkner is an impressive storyteller but the work he is most remembered for is his long- distance works, his novels, "The Sound and the Fury" " Light in August" "Absalom, Absalom" among others.
The stories here nonetheless provide a real sense of Faulkner as a writer. The unmistakeable Faulkner style with its complex and Latinate sentences , its cumulative enveloping rhythm, its penetration of the inner lives of its characters, in grotesque and often extreme relationships, including those in which there is often real violence, is here in these stories.
Among the stories in this collection are "A Rose for Emily" " Dry September" "That Evening Sun" "Lo" "Red Leaves".
Turnabout" .
I would say to truly know Faulkner at his best and fullest it is necessary to read the novels. But the stories too give the feeling and flavor of this great American master's work.