description: Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the 15 or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound &amp; the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels &amp; with the subjects &amp; characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In "A Rose for Emily," the 1st of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, murder &amp; implied necrophilia. The vicious Snopes family of The Hamlet trilogy turns up in "Barn Burning" ('38), about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. Other inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha County appearing here include Jason &amp; Caddy Compson, childish witnesses to the terror of the pregnant black laundress in "That Evening Sun" ('30), who fears that her lover will murder her.Barn burning Two soldiers Rose for EmilyDry September That evening sunRed leavesLo! TurnaboutHonor There was a queenMountain victoryBeyond Race at morning
language: English
title: Selected Stories
titlecomplete: Selected Stories
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Anthologies, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1365
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd