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  title info:
    title: William Faulkner
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Faulkner
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Faulkner, William
    name part: 1897-1962
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Towner, Theresa M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 1160 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: William Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." The fifty-four stories gathered here show him not only mastering the form but revolutionizing its possibilities, distilling an epic breadth of vision into narratives that conjure an intimate sense of place and the abiding presence of history and legend. Library of America caps its Faulkner edition with this volume presenting all the stories he collected in his lifetime. Carefully curated by the author, each of the three classic collections gathered here has its own artistic coherence and integrity, and is published in a newly corrected text. The six stories in Knight's Gambit (1949) feature Yoknapatawpha County lawyer Gavin Stevens, a literary precursor of Atticus Finch. Harvard- and Heidelberg-trained, yet sympathetic to the foibles of his small-town and country neighbors, Stevens is equal parts detective, confessor and knight-errant, single-minded in his pursuit of justice but clear-eyed in his understanding that "justice is accomplished lots of times by methods that won't bear looking at." Collected Stories (1950) is one of the major works of American short fiction. Its forty-two stories were grouped by Faulkner into six thematic sections that survey the range of his literary universe, from World War I France to Hollywood to the towns and forests of Mississippi. Published just months before Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, it includes such memorable works as the Gothic-inflected "A Rose for Emily," the heartbreaking "That Evening Sun" and "The Brooch," a powerful and unsettling story about a man torn between his mother and his wife. The hunting stories in Big Woods (1955), the final collection Faulkner saw through the press, were significantly revised for publication in book form, linked with what he called "interrupted catalysts," brief passages adapted from earlier novels and stories. "The Bear," the first story in the collection and one of Faulkner's enduring mas…
  table of contents: Knight's gambit. Smoke ; Monk ; Hand upon the waters ; Tomorrow ; An error in chemistry ; Knight's gambit -- Collected stories. The country. Barn burning ; Shingles for the Lord ; The tall men ; A bear hunt ; Two soldiers ; Shall not perish -- The village. A rose for Emily ; Hair ; Centaur in brass ; Dry September ; Death drag ; Elly ; Uncle Willy ; Mule in the yard ; That will be fine ; That evening sun -- The wilderness. Red leaves ; A justice ; A courtship ; Lo! -- The wasteland. Ad astra ; Victory ; Crevasse ; Turnabout ; All the dead pilots -- The middle ground. Wash ; Honor ; Doctor Martino ; Fox hunt ; Pennsylvania Station ; Artist at home ; The brooch ; My grandmother Millard ; Golden land ; There was a queen ; Mountain victory -- Beyond. Beyond ; Black music ; The leg ; Mistral ; Divorce in Naples ; Carcassonne -- Big woods. The bear ; The old people ; A bear hunt ; Race at morning -- Other works. Spotted horses ; The hound ; Speech of acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature ; Mississippi -- Chronology.
  note: Theresa M. Towner, editor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    topic: American literature
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Southern
  classification: 813/.52
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of America ; 375
  identifier: 9781598537529
  identifier: 1598537520
  identifier: 2023933517
  record info:
    record content source: TOH
    record creation date: 230814
    record change date: 20240514144602.8
    record identifier: in00004789616