42 stories of this collection was authorized and supervised by William Faulkner who was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer, he came up with the themed section headings. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. The intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition are evoked in Faulkner’s stories. The selections in this book are classics such as A Bear Hunt, A Rose for Emily, Two Soldiers, The Brooch, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning, Shall Not Perish, and Dry September. These tales are set in Yoknapatawpha County, 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 so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.
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