The Essential Faulkner

A collection of essential pieces by an American master • “A real contribution to the study of Faulkner’s work.”—Edmund Wilson   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