Collected Stories of William Faulkner

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 not set 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 in these pages so sharply and indelibly that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.

Stories include:

Barn Burning

A Bear Hunt

Two Soldiers

A Rose for Emily

Uncle Willy

That Evening Sun

Red Leaves

Lo!

Victory

All the Dead Pilots

Wash, Fox Hunt

The Brooch

My Grandmother

Mountain Victory

Beyond

Black Music

The Leg

Mistral

Divorce in Naples

Carcassonne

and many others.