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As I Lay Dying (Vintage International) by William Faulkner A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica; All Teen Lit | | |
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury was written (and is set) in the postbellum American South, in the period after Reconstruction (1865–77). At this critical moment in American history, the South was in the process of redefining itself and its values in the absence of slavery. Certain Southern families (typically old landed families) refused to... Today's Bargain Price: $0.60 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Light In August by William Faulkner In Faulkner style of the unstructured modernist narrative that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, delve into the themes of race, sex, class and religion in the 20th century American South.This novel features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her... Today's Bargain Price: $0.75 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Light in August (DF Modern Classics) by William Faulkner First published in 1932, ‘Light in August’ is a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with optimistic perseverance in the face of mortality, written by William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Faulkner’s reputation is based on his novels, novellas, and short stories.... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner Soldiers' Pay William Faulkner - "A deft hand has woven this narrative. . . . This book rings true."—New York TimesFaulkner's debut novel, Soldiers' Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran's homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers' return from war on... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner The unforgettable tale of an American soldier’s return home from WWI by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Sound and the Fury.Lt. Donald Mahon served as a fighter pilot in the Great War. After suffering a terrible head injury, he was released from the hospital with lost memories and a disfiguring scar. Now, back in America, he makes... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner “Full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.”—Lillian Hellman, New York Herald TribuneA fascinating glimpse of the author as a young artist, Faulkner’s sophomore novel, Mosquitoes (1927), introduces us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. This engaging... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner “A deft hand has woven this narrative. . . . This book rings true.”—New York TimesFaulkner’s debut novel, Soldiers’ Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran’s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers’ return from war on the people—particularly the... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories by William Faulkner No summary available Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
The Essential Faulkner by William Faulkner A collection of the essential works by William Faulkner, the American novelist and short story writer."I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing." - William... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta... by William Faulkner Here is a classic collection from one of America’s greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of “Turn About,” which derives from the time of the First World War, all these tales unfold in a small town in Mississippi, William Faulkner’s birthplace and... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Ole Miss Juvenilia (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections) by William Faulkner Faulkner's prolific publication history began at the age of 16 with poems and sketches for the Ole Miss campus newspaper, The Mississippian. The author continued to contribute to the publication throughout his student days at the university as well as after dropping out. These early works of poetry and prose reflect his gift for keen... Today's Bargain Price: $3.80 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International) by William Faulkner “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Selected Short Stories (Modern Library) by William Faulkner From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Sex & Erotica | | |
The Faulkner Reader by William Faulkner A sweeping anthology of works by an American original, including the complete text of The Sound and the Fury, a foreword by the author, his Nobel Prize address, and a selection of brilliant novellas and short stories, including:This William Faulkner collection includes a Forward by the author; Faulkner’s December 10, 1950 Nobel Prize... Today's Bargain Price: $1.99 Or FREE with Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
The Faulkner Reader by William Faulkner This William Faulkner collection includes a Forward by the author; Faulkner’s December 10, 1950 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech; The Sound and the Fury (complete); six excerpts from other novels; and eight short stories including: A Rose for Emily, Dry September, Barn Burning, That Evening Sun, Turnabout, Shingles for the Lord, Wash, and A... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
The Faulkner Reader: The Sound and the Fury, Selections from Other Novels, Three Novellas, Nine Stories, The Nobel... by William Faulkner A sweeping anthology of works by an American original, including the complete text of The Sound and the Fury, a foreword by the author, his Nobel Prize address, and a selection of brilliant novellas and short stories, including: “The Bear” (from Go Down, Moses) “Old Man” (from The Wild Palms) “Spotted Horses” (from The Hamlet) “A Rose... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Nonfiction | | |
Light in August (Vintage International) by William Faulkner “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Go Down, Moses (Vintage International) by William Faulkner “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 interrelated... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (Snopes Trilogy) by William Faulkner Here, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner’s famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author’s incomparable imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (Vintage International) by William Faulkner “I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (Vintage International) by William Faulkner In this feverishly beautiful novel—originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner, and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (Vintage International) by William Faulkner This invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections; previously... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Essential Faulkner by William Faulkner A collection of essential pieces by an American master • “A real contribution to the study of Faulkner’s work.”—Edmund Wilson 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... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses Old Man The Bear (Vintage International) by William Faulkner “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” —William Faulkner These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the “cold practicality” of women against the boyish folly of... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
A Fable (Vintage International) by William Faulkner This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 195. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Religion & Spirituality; All Religious Fiction | | |
The Wishing Tree by William Faulkner A beautifully illustrated children’s book unlike any other—a tender and atmospheric tale written by William Faulkner as a present for his future stepdaughter “If you are kind to helpless things, you don’t need a Wishing Tree to make things come true.” A strange boy leads a birthday girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Fantasy; All Nonfiction | | |
The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family (Vintage International Book 2) by William Faulkner This is the second volume of Faulkner’s trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor The Hamlet, and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes’... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters (Modern Library Classics) by William Faulkner An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Knight's Gambit (Vintage International) by William Faulkner Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens’ sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives. Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian... Today's Bargain Price: $18.00 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
The Hamlet (Vintage International) by William Faulkner The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris (Vintage... by William Faulkner The complete text, published for the first time in 1973, of Faulkner’s third novel, written when he was twenty-nine, which appeared, with his reluctant consent, in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris. Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Father Abraham by William Faulkner Not a fragment, not quite a finished work, Father Abraham is the brilliant beginning of a novel which William Faulkner tried repeatedly to write, for a period of almost a decade and a half, during the earlier part of his career—the novel about the Snopes family which he finally completed and published as The Hamlet in 1940. ... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
The Marble Faun and A Green Bough by William Faulkner Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933). “These are primarily the poems of youth and a simple heart. They are the poems of a mind that reacts directly to sunlight... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Nonfiction | | |
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner “A deft hand has woven this narrative. . . . This book rings true.”— The New York Times Faulkner’s first novel, Soldiers’ Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran’s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers’ return from war on the... Today's Bargain Price: $7.59 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
The Mansion (Vintage International) by William Faulkner The Mansion completes Faulkner’s great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of the indomitable post-bellum family who managed to seize... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Pylon: The Corrected Text (Vintage International) by William Faulkner One of the few of William Faulkner’s works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon , first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
These 13 by William Faulkner William Faulkner’s first collection of short stories, long out of print and now available as an ebook, featuring “A Rose for Emily” and many of his best-loved stories, including: “Victory” “Ad Astra” “All the Dead Pilots” “Crevasse” “Red Leaves” “A Justice” “Hair” “That Evening Sun” “Dry September” “Mistral” “Divorce in Naples”... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Vintage International) by William Faulkner "The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work." Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy;... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Intruder in the Dust (Vintage International) by William Faulkner 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. Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Reivers (Vintage International) by William Faulkner 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 McCaslin, stows away... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Unvanquished (Vintage International) by William Faulkner 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. Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Sanctuary (Vintage International) by William Faulkner A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |