Collected Stories of William Faulkner - William Faulkner Audiobook

Written by William Faulkner
Read by Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Susan Denaker, Paul Michael, and Arthur Morey
Format: M4A
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

[Chapterized m4b. New CD rip.]

First published by Random House in 1950, and winner of the National Book Award in 1951, this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.

“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

Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.

Ready by Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Susan Denaker, Paul Michael, and Arthur Morey

31 hours and 13 minutes

©1976 Jill Faulkner Summers (P)2005 Random House, Inc.