William Faulkner

Wściekłość i wrzask – powieść Williama Faulknera wydana w 1929 roku. Autor stosuje różne style narracji, między innymi strumień świadomości. Książka zajęła 34 miejsce na liście 100 książek XX wieku według „Le Monde”.

Kiedy umieram – piąta powieść Williama Faulknera z 1930 roku. Szkolna lektura obowiązkowa w krajach anglojęzycznych. Opowieść przedstawiana jest przez 15 narratorów w 59 rozdziałach w stylu strumienia świadomości. Książka opowiada historię rodziny Bundrenów, która uparcie realizuje życzenie matki Addie pragnącej, by …

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Light in August, a novel …

Absalomie, Absalomie... – powieść amerykańskiego pisarza Williama Faulknera. Dzieło zostało wydane po raz pierwszy w języku angielskim nakładem wydawnictwa Random House w 1936. W Polsce książka ukazała się po raz pierwszy w przekładzie polskiej tłumaczki Zofii Kierszys w Państwowym Instytucie Wydawniczym w 1959 w …

Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It is considered one of his more controversial, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely …

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven …

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 Priests’ black coachman, Ned …

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.

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.