The Portable Faulkner
by William Faulkner and Malcom Cowley
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In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner’s vision than The Portable Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories “The Bear,” “Spotted Horses,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “Old Man,” among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the complete text of Faulkner’s 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Malcolm Cowley’s critical introduction was praised as “splendid” by Faulkner himself.
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tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, fiction, African Americans, husband and wife, race relations, buriel, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place), Social life and customs, Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction, Mississippi, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, generalPeople
Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Quentin Compson, Nancy, Caddy, Jason, Dilsey, Jesus, Mrs. Compson, Mr. Stovall, Jailer, Mr. Lovelady, Chief Issetibbeha, Colonel Sutpen, MillyPlaces
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"Books by William Faulkner": p. xxxiii-xxxv.
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The old people : A justice. Wedding in the rain (from Absalom! Absalom!) Red leaves. Was. ;
The unvanguished : Raid. Wash. An odor of Verbena ;
The last wilderness : The bear ;
The peasants : Spotted horses (from the hamlet) ;
The end of an order : That evening sun. Ad astra. A rose for Emily. Disley (from the sound and the fury) ;
Mississipi flood : Old man (from the wild palms) ;
Modern times : Death drag. Oncle Bud and the three Madams (from Sanctuary). Percy Grimm. Delta autumors.
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