Faulkner, William

"The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"-some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume-in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work.".

Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the chaos of their own feelings.

The Compsons, a genteel Southern family that encountered difficulty after the American Civil War, wrestle with squandered fortunes, incest, madness, complex race relations, and other problems.

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.