Faulkner called the short story the most demanding form after poetry and wrote to an editor that even to a collection of short stories, form, integration, is as important as to a novel an entity of its own, single, set for one pitch, contrapuntal in integration, toward one end, one finale. Faulkner was a major practitioner of the short story form and keenly sensitive to its aesthetic demands.The Library of America edition of the collected writings of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting all the stories the author gathered for his book collections, in newly edited and authoritative texts. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read. Faulkners monumentalCollected Stories(1950) presented the authors first two collections,These Thirteen(1931) andDoctor Martino(1934), along with seventeen new stories, all carefully selected and arranged by the authorKnights Gambit(1949) collected six stories about attorney Gavin Stevens detective work and inBig Woods(1955) Faulkner gathered four hunting stories connected with interstitial material. This volume presents these three collections as carefully arranged by Faulkner, with new authoritative and corrected texts that best represent Faulkners intentions for the stories. Here are such wellknown stories as A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, and A Bear Hunt, as well as some of his most poetic Carcassone and less known, such as The Tall Men, Elly, and Uncle Willy. Also included are Faulkners stories The Hound (collected...

Binding: Hardback;1150 pages; Publisher: The Library of America; Classification: FA; Weight: 854 g; Dimensions: 134 x 210 x 38

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