“Every crease is a story.”

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1897–1962
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source].)
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner, 1929

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner, 1930

The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King & others, 1987

Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner, 1951

Light in August
William Faulkner, 1931

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken & others, 1992

40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz & others, 2021

A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner, 1930

Fifty Best American Short Stories
Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster & others, 1965
![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition by James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers.openlibrary.org%2Fb%2Fid%2F9158710-L.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia & others, 2016

Sanctuary
William Faulkner, 1931

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg & others, 1981

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 2010

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others, 1999

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous & others, 1984

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner, 1940

Murder Most Foul
Ray Bradbury, Jack London & others, 1984

The Hamlet
William Faulkner, 1956

The Wild Palms
William Faulkner, 1939

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz & others, 2003

The Reivers
William Faulkner, 1962

The Other Persuasion
Seymour Kleinberg, Gertrude Stein & others, 1977

The Best horror stories
Lynn Picknett, William Faulkner & others, 1977

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 2015

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others, 1989

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill & others, 2006

The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe & others, 1981

Intruder in the Dust
William Faulkner, 1948

The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1987

Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1985

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others, 2009

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others, 2002

The Experience of Literature
Lionel Trilling, William Shakespeare & others, 1967

Soldiers' pay
William Faulkner, 1926

Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren & others, 1959

Twice-Told Tales
Gerard A. Barker, Jack London & others, 1966

Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield & others, 1980

The Unvanquished
William Faulkner, 1952

100 years of the best American short stories
Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor & others, 2015

Sartoris
William Faulkner, 1929
![Cover of Great American Short Stories [34 stories] by Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald & others](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers.openlibrary.org%2Fb%2Fid%2F14830544-L.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald & others, 1977

Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner, 1934

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
Jeffrey Eugenides, Антон Павлович Чехов & others, 2008

The Lucifer Society
Peter Haining, Agatha Christie & others, 1972

Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams & others, 1989

Fiction
R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1993

The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 1991
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