"A real contribution to the study of Faulkner's work." --Edmund
Wilson
A Penguin Classic
In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner
reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of
courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene
crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel
universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The
Portable Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the
novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the
stories "The Bear," "Spotted Horses," "A Rose for Emily," and "Old Man,"
among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the
Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the
complete text of Faulkner's 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize
in literature. Malcolm Cowley's critical introduction was praised as
"splendid" by Faulkner himself.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
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