{"product_id":"selected-short-stories-9780679424789b","title":"Selected Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are \u003ci\u003eSnopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Rose for Emily\u003c\/span\u003e,” the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBarn Burning\u003c\/span\u003e,” about a son’s response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThat Evening Sun\u003c\/span\u003e.” These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, “the greatest artist the South has produced.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluding these stories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e“Barn Burning”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Two Soldiers”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “A Rose for Emily”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Dry September”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “That Evening Sun”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Red Leaves”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Lo!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Turnabout”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Honor”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “There Was a Queen”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Mountain Victory”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Beyond”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e “Race at Morning”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42823592181840,"sku":"9780679424789B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780679424789-l.jpg?v=1785892928","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/selected-short-stories-9780679424789b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}