THE FAULKNER READER; SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER. {Dj title: The Faulkner Reader. The Sound and the Fury (complete); Selections from other Novels; Three Novellas; Nine Stories; The Nobel Prize Address, Etc. With a Foreword by the author.}

Published by New York: Random House, Inc. [Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.], 1954.

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Book-of-the-Month Club reprint. xii, 682 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket chipped at spine and flap fold ends; long tear at spine's fold with rear panel; several other edge tears; some soiling and toning. Blue cloth; several patches of mottling; some bumping to spine ends and board corners; small impressed square at rear board's bottom right; gilt and black stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Toning to text block edges. Past owner's ink signature at top of front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features a notable Foreword (pages ix-xi) in which Faulkner "summarizes his aim as a writer with a simple statement of purpose: 'to uplift a man's heart.'" Main text features Faulkner's December 1950 Nobel Prize Address and the complete novel THE SOUND AND THE FURY followed by fourteen novellas/stories/excerpts: THE BEAR (from GO DOWN, MOSES); OLD MAN (from THE WILD PALMS); SPOTTED HORSES (from THE HAMLET); A ROSE FOR EMILY; BARN BURNING; DRY SEPTEMBER; THAT EVENING SUN; TURNABOUT; SHINGLES FOR THE LORD; A JUSTICE; WASH; AN ODOR OF VERBENA (from THE UNVANQUISHED); PERCY GRIMM (from LIGHT IN AUGUST); and THE COURTHOUSE (from REQUIEM FOR A NUN).…

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Title
THE FAULKNER READER; SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER. {Dj title: The Faulkner Reader. The Sound and the Fury (complete); Selections from other Novels; Three Novellas; Nine Stories; The Nobel Prize Address, Etc. With a Foreword by the author.}
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Faulkner, William [William Cuthbert Faulkner], 1897-1962.
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New York: Random House, Inc. [Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.], 1954.
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