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William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his grandfather was a wealth lawyer who owned a railroad. When Faulkner was five his parents moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a desultory education in local schools, dropping out of high school in 1915. Rejected for pilot training in the U.S. Army, he passed himself off as British and joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918, but the war ended before he... Read More
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The Reivers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2008
Price: $20.00
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priest's black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2008
Price: $20.00
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priest's black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows... Read more >
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Requiem for a Nun
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1975
Price: $12.00
This sequel to Faulkner's SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1975
Price: $12.00
This sequel to Faulkner's SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY. Read more >
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Sanctuary
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $20.00
Rediscover this Faulkner classic--or explore it for the first time.
A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $20.00
Rediscover this Faulkner classic--or explore it for the first time.
A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who... Read more >
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Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 18, 1993
Price: $20.00
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 18, 1993
Price: $20.00
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Snopes
Format: Hardcover, 1088 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $29.95
Here, for the first time published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that compose the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner's imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1088 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $29.95
Here, for the first time published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that compose the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner's imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and... Read more >
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The Sound and the Fury
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $20.00
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $20.00
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
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The Sound and the Fury
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 6, 2005
Price: $19.95
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 6, 2005
Price: $19.95
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
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The Sound and the Fury
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $9.98
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $9.98
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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The Sound and the Fury
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1991
Price: $13.00
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1991
Price: $13.00
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. Read more >
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Three Famous Short Novels
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1958
Price: $10.95
Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and his famous "The Bear." Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1958
Price: $10.95
Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and his famous "The Bear." Read more >
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The Town
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1961
Price: $11.95
This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.
Like its predecessor The Hamlet and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1961
Price: $11.95
This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.
Like its predecessor The Hamlet and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of... Read more >
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Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $19.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $19.95
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The Unvanquished
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1991
Price: $14.95
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1991
Price: $14.95
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. Read more >
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The Wild Palms
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $14.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $14.95
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