Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulForty-two Faulkner stories, selected under his supervision and arranged in six sections
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories arranged in six sections, from The Country to Beyond
Random House published the collection in 1950. Its 42 stories were selected and organized under Faulkner's supervision and divided into six sections: The Country (6 stories), The Village (10), The Wilderness (4), The Wasteland (5), The Middle Ground (11) and Beyond (6). It includes well-known stories such as "A Rose for Emily," "Barn Burning" and "That Evening Sun."
More about this book
Who
A wide range of characters across forty-two stories.
World
Six sections: The Country, The Village, The Wilderness, The Wasteland, The Middle Ground and Beyond.
What makes it different
Faulkner chose the stories and arranged them himself. Notable ones include "A Rose for Emily," "Barn Burning," "Dry September" and "That Evening Sun."
Feel
Wide-ranging and substantial. It won the 1951 National Book Award for Fiction.
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