The Portable Faulkner
by William Faulkner and Malcom Cowley
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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.
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The Portable Faulkner
2003, Penguin Books
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The Portable Faulkner
1977, Penguin Books
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- Revised edition, 14th reprint
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The Portable Faulkner
1974, Viking Press
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in English
- Revised and Expanded Edition
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The Portable Faulkner
1969-03, Viking Press
Library Binding
in English
- Rev. and expanded ed.; 6th printing
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"Books by William Faulkner": p. xxxiii-xxxv.
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The old people : A justice. Wedding in the rain (from Absalom! Absalom!) Red leaves. Was. ;
The unvanguished : Raid. Wash. An odor of Verbena ;
The last wilderness : The bear ;
The peasants : Spotted horses (from the hamlet) ;
The end of an order : That evening sun. Ad astra. A rose for Emily. Disley (from the sound and the fury) ;
Mississipi flood : Old man (from the wild palms) ;
Modern times : Death drag. Oncle Bud and the three Madams (from Sanctuary). Percy Grimm. Delta autumors.
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