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Collected Stories of William Faulkner - Complete edition: Forty-two stories: Enriched by Author's Banquet Speech for his Nobel Prize (Nobel Price in Literature)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner - Complete edition Forty-two stories Enriched by Author's Banquet Speech for his Nobel Prize - Nobel Price in Literature Author:William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (*September 25, 1897 ? ?July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Missi... more »ssippi, where he spent most of his life. William Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists. Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings. Contents: The Country (Six stories) The Village (Ten stories) The Wilderness (Four stories) The Wasteland (Five stories) The Middle Ground (Eleven stories) Beyond (Six stories) Enriched by : Biography & Bibliography Banquet Speech (Acceptance Nobel Prize). Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"« less