The Portable Faulkner

ΓÇ£A real contribution to the study of FaulknerΓÇÖs work.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöEdmund Wilson A Penguin Classic In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity,William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and crueltygallantry and greedfutile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a smallminutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha CountyMississippi. No single volume better conveys the scope of FaulknerΓÇÖs vision than The Portable Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the FuryLight in Augustand Sanctuary; the stories ΓÇ£The BearΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£Spotted HorsesΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£A Rose for EmilyΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Old ManΓÇ¥ among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the complete text of FaulknerΓÇÖs 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Malcolm CowleyΓÇÖs critical introduction was praised as ΓÇ£splendidΓÇ¥ by Faulkner himself. For more than seventy yearsPenguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1800 titlesPenguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authorsas well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.