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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Author 109 / Writer 25 / Actor · 1915 – 2023 · 🎬 26 📖 109 · 🇺🇸 United States

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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The Modern Tradition - Second Edition

The Modern Tradition - Second Edition

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1972

The Lucifer Society

The Lucifer Society

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1972

William Faulkner / Eugene O'Neill / John Steinbeck

William Faulkner / Eugene O'Neill / John Steinbeck

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1971

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

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1971

The sea-green horse

The sea-green horse

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1970

The Short Story

The Short Story

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1969

The experience of literature

The experience of literature

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1967

Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary

Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary

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1967

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The Essential Faulkner

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1967

The edge of the chair

The edge of the chair

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1967

The Shape of Fiction. Stories for Comparaison

The Shape of Fiction. Stories for Comparaison

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1967

The experience of literature

The experience of literature

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1966

Fifty Best American Short Stories

Fifty Best American Short Stories

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1965

American Short Stories

American Short Stories

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1965

Faulkner at West Point

Faulkner at West Point

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1964

Wishing Tree

Wishing Tree

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1964

Reading modern fiction

Reading modern fiction

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1962

The Reivers

The Reivers

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1962

30 Stories to Remember

30 Stories to Remember

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1962

Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

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1960

Understanding fiction -- Second Edition

Understanding fiction -- Second Edition

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1959

The mansion

The mansion

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1959

More Stories to Remember -- Volume II

More Stories to Remember -- Volume II

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1958

Faulkner in the university

Faulkner in the university

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1958

Great American Short Stories

Great American Short Stories

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1957

The Town

The Town

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1957

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Faulkner at Nagano

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1956

America's Literature

America's Literature

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1955

Big Woods

Big Woods

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1955

The Saturday Evening Post Treasury

The Saturday Evening Post Treasury

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1954

The Faulkner Reader

The Faulkner Reader

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1954

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Mirrors of Chartres Street

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1953

Ten modern masters

Ten modern masters

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1953

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

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1952

The Rinehart Book of Short Stories

The Rinehart Book of Short Stories

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1952

The Portable Faulkner

The Portable Faulkner

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1950

Requiem for a Nun

Requiem for a Nun

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1950

A Fable

A Fable

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1950

Great Short Stories

Great Short Stories

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1950

Three Famous Short Novels (Bear / Old Man / Spotted Horses)

Three Famous Short Novels (Bear / Old Man / Spotted Horses)

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1948

Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust

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1948

New Orleans sketches

New Orleans sketches

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1946

Novels (As I Lay Dying / Sound and the Fury)

Novels (As I Lay Dying / Sound and the Fury)

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1946

The Hamlet

The Hamlet

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1940

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses

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1940

The wild palms

The wild palms

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1939

The Unvanquished

The Unvanquished

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1938

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

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1936

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