William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
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🎬 Movies
As I Lay Dying
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2013
The Big Sleep
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1967
The Long, Hot Summer
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1958
The Tarnished Angels
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1958
Land of the Pharaohs
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1955
Mildred Pierce
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1950
Intruder in the Dust
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1949
The Southerner
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1945
To Have and Have Not
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1944
Northern Pursuit
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1943
Background to Danger
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1943
Air Force
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1943
Drums Along the Mohawk
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1939
Four Men and a Prayer
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1938
Submarine Patrol
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1938
Slave Ship
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1937
The Road to Glory
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1936
The Story of Temple Drake
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1933
Today We Live
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1933
Flesh
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1932
📖 Books
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
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2016
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
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2015
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
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2010
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
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2009
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
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2008
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
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2008
Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition
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2007
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
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2006
American 24-Karat Gold
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2006
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
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2003
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
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2002
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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1999
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
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1995
The American Short Story [59 stories]
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1994
Novels, 1942-1954
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1994
Snopes (Hamlet / Mansion / Town)
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1994
Fiction
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1993
The Situation of the Story
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1993
Campfire Legends
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1993
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
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1992
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
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1991
Crime Classics
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1990
The best horror stories
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1990
Novels, 1936-1940
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1990
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
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1989
Short Stories
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1989
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
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1989
Fiction 100
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1988
The Dark Descent
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1987
Literature--second edition
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1986
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
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1985
Novels, 1930-1935
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1985
A Treasury of Civil War Stories
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1985
Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural
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1985
Great American Short Stories [48 stories]
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1984
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
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1984
The Evil Image
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1981
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
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1981
Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
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1980
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
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1979
Fireside Reader
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1978
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
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1978
The Other Persuasion
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1977
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
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1977
The American Landscape
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1974
The Modern Tradition - Second Edition
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1972
The Lucifer Society
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1972
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
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1971
William Faulkner / Eugene O'Neill / John Steinbeck
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1971
The sea-green horse
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1970
The Short Story
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1969
The Essential Faulkner
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1967
Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
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1967
The Shape of Fiction. Stories for Comparaison
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1967
The edge of the chair
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1967
The experience of literature
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1967
The experience of literature
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1966
American Short Stories
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1965
Fifty Best American Short Stories
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1965
Faulkner at West Point
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1964
Wishing Tree
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1964
30 Stories to Remember
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1962
Reading modern fiction
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1962
The Reivers
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1962
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
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1960
The mansion
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1959
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
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1959
More Stories to Remember -- Volume II
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1958
Faulkner in the university
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1958
The Town
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1957
Great American Short Stories
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1957
Faulkner at Nagano
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1956
Big Woods
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1955
America's Literature
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1955
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury
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1954
The Faulkner Reader
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1954
Mirrors of Chartres Street
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1953
Ten modern masters
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1953
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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1952
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
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1952
A Fable
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1950
Requiem for a Nun
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1950
The Portable Faulkner
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1950
Great Short Stories
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1950
Three Famous Short Novels (Bear / Old Man / Spotted Horses)
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1948
Intruder in the Dust
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1948
New Orleans sketches
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1946
Novels (As I Lay Dying / Sound and the Fury)
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1946
The Hamlet
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1940
Go Down, Moses
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1940
The wild palms
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1939
The Unvanquished
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1938
Absalom, Absalom!
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1936
Pylon
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1935
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
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1934
Dr Martino and Other Stories
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1934
Sanctuary
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1931
These 13
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1931
Light in August
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1931
A Rose for Emily
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1930
Sartoris
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1929
The Sound and the Fury
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1929
Mosquitoes
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1927
Soldiers' pay
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1926
Knight's Gambit
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1919
As I Lay Dying
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1915