"A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. "They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from the sky that morning, the ones that announced the coming of DELLA THE DARING DEVILETTE, who would DEFY THE HEAVENS, shining like a DAYTIME STAR, a WING-WALKING WONDER borne upon the...

Tells the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's mission to honor her desire to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves-on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps-while...

Spine title: The sound and the fury. Contains critical essays reprinted in the chronological order of their original publication.

"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...

A study of Faulkner's fiction, his approach to his characters, his uses of them, and their role in the general strategy of his fiction.

Contemporary critical opinion and commentary on William Faulkner and his works.

The story of the son of a tenant farmer who must choose between his aversion to playing his father's accomplice in violent acts against their landowners and his desire to win his father's acceptance.

The members of the legendary Algonquin Round Table become sleuths when they find the body of a competing theatre critic under their usual table. A new writer, Billy Faulkner, has just arrived in New York from Mississippi and immediately becomes the police's number one suspect. Dorothy Parker knows that is rubbish and, with the help of Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Sherwood, sets out to clear the young man's name.