The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

by FAULKNER, WILLIAM

• ISBN13: 9780375701092
• ISBN10: 0375701095
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-02
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

These forty-five stories include not only some of Faulkner's best, but also what proved to be the testing ground for what latter became such major novels as THE UNVANQUISHED, THE HAMLET and GO DOWN MOSES.

Author Biography

William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	XV
I STORIES REVISED FOR LATER BOOKS	3	(328)
The Unvanquished	3	(115)
Ambuscade	3	(14)
Retreat	17	(20)
Raid	37	(21)
Skirmish at Sartoris	58	(16)
The Unvanquished	74	(23)
Vendee	97	(21)
The Hamlet	118	(66)
Fool About a Horse	118	(17)
Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard	135	(17)
The Hound	152	(13)
Spotted Horses	165	(19)
Go Down, Moses	184	(112)
Lion	184	(17)
The Old People	201	(12)
A Point of Law	213	(13)
Gold Is Not Always	226	(12)
Pantaloon in Black	238	(18)
Go Down, Moses	256	(11)
Delta Autumn	267	(14)
The Bear	281	(15)
Big Woods	296	(15)
Race at Morning	296	(15)
The Mansion	311	(20)
Hog Pawn	311	(20)
II UNCOLLECTED STORIES	331	(128)
Nympholepsy	331	(7)
Frankie and Johnny	338	(10)
The Priest	348	(4)
Once Aboard the Lugger (I)	352	(7)
Once Aboard the Lugger (II)	359	(9)
Miss Zilphia Gant	368	(14)
Thrift	382	(17)
Idyll in the Desert	399	(13)
Two Dollar Wife	412	(12)
Afternoon of a Cow	424	(11)
Mr. Acarius	435	(14)
Sepulture South: Gaslight	449	(10)
III UNPUBLISHED STORIES	459	(222)
Adolescence	459	(15)
Al Jackson	474	(6)
Don Giovanni	480	(9)
Peter	489	(6)
Moonlight	495	(9)
The Big Shot	504	(22)
Dull Tale	526	(21)
A Return	547	(28)
A Dangerous Man	575	(8)
Evangeline	583	(27)
A Portrait of Elmer	610	(32)
With Caution and Dispatch	642	(23)
Snow	665	(16)
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY	681
NOTES	681	(32)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	713