Selected Short Stories
$50.01
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
15 May 1993
Summary
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. T…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679424789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679424784 |
| Author: | William Faulkner |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 1993 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 142mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Modern Library (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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