William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury is een southern gothic novel van William Faulkner, gepubliceerd in 1929. Het was het werk dat Faulkner internationale erkenning bracht. Het verhaal is onderdeel van een reeks van romans die het verhaal van drie families - de Sutpens, de Comptons en de Coldfields - in de fictieve streek …

As I Lay Dying is een in 1930 gepubliceerde roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver William Faulkner. In 1987 verscheen bij De Bezige Bij een vertaling van Rien Verhoef onder de titel Terwijl ik al heenging, die in 2007 werd heruitgegeven bij Eldorado. Faulkner schreef het boek in zes weken, terwijl hij werkte op een …

Light in August is een roman van William Faulkner die werd gepubliceerd in 1932.

Absalom, Absalom! is een southern gothic novel van William Faulkner, gepubliceerd in 1936. Het verhaal is onderdeel van een reeks van romans die het verhaal van drie families, de Sutpens, de Compsons en de Coldfields in de fictieve streek Yoknapatawpha in het Zuiden van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika beschrijven. De …

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.