William Faulkner

Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, 'As I Lay Dying' is a true 20th-century classic. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfil her last wish-to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Narrated in turn by each of the family members-including Addie herself-as well as others, the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.

Faulkner, adem s de haber sido el innovador de una forma de narrar que ha infl uido poderosamente en las generaciones que le han continuado, fue el cronista de los m s notables hechos, costumbres y personajes de su tierra. Luz de agosto es una de las obras m s representativas de un hombre que, trabajando sobre la historia y haciendo campear la imaginaci n, logr convertirse en uno de los escritores m s importantes de este siglo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of Judt's life, the years in which he found his voice in the public sphere.

William Faulkner’s provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel’s contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minter’s annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained. “Contemporary Reception,” new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner’s extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorra’s headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner (“The Writer and His Work”) include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulkner’s Nobel Prize for Literature address. “Cultural and Historical Contexts” begins with Michael Gorra’s insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerations—five of them new to the Third Edition—of southern history, literature, and memory. Together, these works—by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergson—provide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel. “Criticism” represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury. New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria Truchan-Tataryn. A Chronology of Faulkner’s life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography.

William Faulkner never stood taller than five feet, six inches, but in the realm of American literature, he is a giant. More than simply a renowned Mississippi writer, the Nobel-Prize winning novelist and short story writer is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, one who transformed his "postage stamp" of native soil into an apocryphal setting in which he explored, articulated, and challenged the "old verities and truths of the heart."In this collection, we are proud to present a historic recording of Mr. Faulkner reading his 1949 Nobel acceptance speech and excerpts from As I Lay Dying and The Old Man.

One of William Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, "Light in August" reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and Joe Christmas, a ragged, itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed-race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters' stories, "Light in August" brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, in all of its unerringly fascinating glory. Along with a new Foreword by C. E. Morgan, this edition reproduces the corrected text of "Light in August" as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.

This invaluable volume contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner s earlier collections; previously unpublished short fiction; and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author s canon as well as a book of some of the most haunting, harrowing, and atmospheric short fiction written in the twentieth century."

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

William Faulkner's famous, best-known Southern Gothic novel about a formerly wealthy family marred by loss and tragedy, now repackaged for Union Square and Co.'s Signature Editions series. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the man-child Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the once proud family, now doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through their interior monologues. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and loss, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's magnum opus and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was immediately praised for its innovative narrative styles, and meditations on family, race, and holding on to a fallen legacy.

A Southern family teeters on the edge of collapse in the decades following the Civil War. Through the shifting minds of three brothers-one cognitively disabled, one embittered and neurotic, the third cynical and self-destructive-the tangled legacy of the Compson family comes into focus. Their sister's rebellion and shame become the axis on which the family's downfall turns, as time fractures and history repeats itself in echoes and fragments. Told through multiple perspectives, each shaped by memory, pain, and loss, the novel explores the weight of tradition, the failure of communication, and the decay of old Southern values. Reality itself becomes unreliable as each brother tries and fails to impose meaning on a world slipping beyond control. Anchored in one family's intimate suffering, the story becomes a powerful portrait of human fragility and the consequences of silence.

A Southern family teeters on the edge of collapse in the decades following the Civil War. Through the shifting minds of three brothers-one cognitively disabled, one embittered and neurotic, the third cynical and self-destructive-the tangled legacy of the Compson family comes into focus. Their sister's rebellion and shame become the axis on which the family's downfall turns, as time fractures and history repeats itself in echoes and fragments. Told through multiple perspectives, each shaped by memory, pain, and loss, the novel explores the weight of tradition, the failure of communication, and the decay of old Southern values. Reality itself becomes unreliable as each brother tries and fails to impose meaning on a world slipping beyond control. Anchored in one family's intimate suffering, the story becomes a powerful portrait of human fragility and the consequences of silence.

U kazhdogo naroda est svoi nepovtorimye natsionalnye osobennosti, kotorye skladyvajutsja vekami, na protjazhenii ego istoricheskogo razvitija pod vlijaniem mnozhestva samykh raznoobraznykh faktorov. Konechno, natsionalnyj kharakter - ponjatie mnogogrannoe. Vklad amerikanskogo naroda v obschechelovecheskuju kulturu, nauku, tekhniku, iskusstvo ogromen, ego nelzja pereotsenit. No, pomimo blagotvornogo, pozitivnogo, bezuslovno, est i strashnyj razrushitelnyj vklad. Zhestokie dejanija po otnosheniju k indejtsam, negram i drugim narodam sovershalis pri dobrovolnom uchastii shirokikh sloev rjadovykh amerikantsev i ne mogli ne ostavit glubokikh otmetin na ikh natsionalnom kharaktere. My khotim posmotret na negativnye projavlenija natsionalnogo kharaktera amerikanskogo naroda glazami vydajuschikhsja amerikanskikh pisatelej, kotorye, bezuslovno, ljubili svoe otechestvo i svoj narod i skorbeli o ego nedostatkakh i porokakh. Nesomnenno, ikh vzgljad obladaet osobym avtoritetom, siloj, obektivnostju i pozvolit otvetit na vopros, pochemu amerikanskij narod neodnokratno projavljal takuju zhestokost v istorii?Perevodchiki: Gurova Irina Gavrilovna, Soloveva Julija, Bernshtejn Inna Maksimovna

One of Faulkner's most controversial novels A lesser-known but compelling novel from the author of Absalom, Absalom and The Sound and the Fury.Have you ever wondered what speaks to the tortured soul of an artist? What would it be like to be stuck on a yacht with only the musings of the world and a group of artists as your company?In the heat of the late Louisiana summer, Faulkner brings us a story of artistry that examines the thoughts and actions of Southern bohemians who have nothing to interrupt them but the hum and fire of the mosquitoes that surround them. "Faulkner's message is clear: We are the mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes are us."-Rein Fartel, "Twentieth Century Millennial: Revisiting Faulkner's Mosquitoes." With a foreword by Carl Rollyson, a renowned biographer of Faulkner and other eminent authors, this fine new edition works to highlight the "Louisiana Faulkner," the Faulkner before fame, and his thoughts on the lives of Southern artists.

One of Faulkner's most controversial novels A lesser-known but compelling novel from the author of Absalom, Absalom and The Sound and the Fury.Have you ever wondered what speaks to the tortured soul of an artist? What would it be like to be stuck on a yacht with only the musings of the world and a group of artists as your company?In the heat of the late Louisiana summer, Faulkner brings us a story of artistry that examines the thoughts and actions of Southern bohemians who have nothing to interrupt them but the hum and fire of the mosquitoes that surround them. "Faulkner's message is clear: We are the mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes are us."-Rein Fartel, "Twentieth Century Millennial: Revisiting Faulkner's Mosquitoes." With a foreword by Carl Rollyson, a renowned biographer of Faulkner and other eminent authors, this fine new edition works to highlight the "Louisiana Faulkner," the Faulkner before fame, and his thoughts on the lives of Southern artists.