William Faulkner

The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following The Hamlet and The Town. It charts the downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his relative Mink Snopes, in part aided by Flem's deaf …

Two collections of early poems by William Faulkner; a sonnet sequence dedicated to his sweetheart, Helen Baird, c. 1925; and "Mississippi Poems," c. 1926, which were typed for Faulkner at the law office of his mentor, Phil Stone. Each section has a separate scholarly introduction; "Helen: A Courtship," intro. by …

Flags in the Dust is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing about 40,000 words in the process. That version was published as Sartoris in 1929. Faulkner's original manuscript of Flags in the Dust was …