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Novels 

Soldier's Pay 

Mosquioes

Sartoris

The Sound and the Fury 

As I Lay Dying Sanctuary 

Light in August 

Pylon 

The Unvanquished

The Wild Palms

The Hamlet

Go Down, Moses 

Intruder in the Dust 

Requiem for a Nun 

A Fable

The Town 

The Mansion

The Reivers

Short Stories 

Uncle Willie and Other Stories

These Thirteen 

Dr. Martino and Other Stories

Knight's Gambit

Faulkner's Country 

Collected Stories

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'By universal consent, Faulkner stand as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James' 

Harold Bloom 

As a poor white boy, Sutphen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler.  From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society.  His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realized; land, marriage, children.  But after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south.  He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work on his grandfather's bank.  Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined date Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.  His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919.  His first book verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in1929.  As I Lay Dying  (193), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948).  During the 1930s he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.  William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.