A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner

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A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner is written by Edmond L. Volpe and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815630395 (ISBN 10) and 9780815630395 (ISBN 13).

The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for moneywhich he didEdmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.