Collected Stories of William Faulkner

Of these forty-two stories, seventeen have not been published in any of Faulkner’s books, and a number of the others come from books now out of print. Here is a microcosm of the haunting world that Faulkner has so powerfully created; it brings to the reader his entire landscape, reflects all his major themes—the degeneration of the Old South, the greed and crudity of the new go-getters, the perceptiveness of the young, and so forth. These Collected Stories certainly strengthen the case of those critics who have steadily maintained that Faulkner is the greatest living American writer.