The portable Faulkner - Hardcover

Malcolm (ED) Cowley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670010189 ISBN 13: 9780670010189

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1967

Synopsis

This is a collection of stories and episodes from novels forming a history of life in William Faulkner's metaphorical kingdom, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. It includes three longer stories: "The Bear", "Spotted Horses" and "Old Man", and Malcolm Cowley's acclaimed 1946 introduction.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

About the Author:

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was born in Mississippi and was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize.

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0670010189
• ISBN 13: 9780670010189
• Binding: Hardcover