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2006-09-03 05:15:19 · 4 answers · asked by MV 3 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

"..."is considered among the best stories written in the twentieth century. "..."appeared in its fullest form as a chapter in Go Down, Moses (1942), following revisions of earlier versions published as "Lion" in Harper's Magazine in December, 1935, and as ....in Saturday Evening Post in May, 1942. Go Down, Moses, which contains some of Faulkner's finest writing and is variously considered a novel or a short story collection, explores the dual themes of the gradual loss of the wilderness to frontier settlement and the racial tension arising from the exploitation of African Americans. The narrative spans five generations of the white and the black descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, a Scotsman who purchased the family plantation in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, from a Native American chief. Each chapter concerns the consequences of McCaslin's actions as they affect his descendants: primarily his abuse of the land, participation in slavery, and ...

2006-09-03 08:17:30 · update #1

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The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), The Unvanquished (1938), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

He received a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and won National Book Awards for his Collected Stories (1951) and A Fable (1955).

2006-09-03 05:20:04 · answer #1 · answered by Jason T 3 · 0 0

Novels
Soldiers' Pay (1926)
Mosquitoes (1927)
Sartoris (Flags in the Dust) (1929)
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Sanctuary (1931)
Light in August (1932)
Pylon (1935)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
The Unvanquished (1938)
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) (1939)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Requiem for a Nun (1951)
A Fable (1954)
The Reivers (1962)
Flags in the Dust (1973)
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Snopes series
1. The Hamlet (1940)
2. The Town (1957)
3. The Mansion (1959)
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Short stories
"Landing in Luck" (1919)
"The Hill" (1922)
"New Orleans"
"Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925)
"Damon and Pythias Unlimited" (1925)
"Jealousy" (1925)
"Cheest" (1925)
"Out of Nazareth" (1925)
"The Kingdom of God" (1925)
"The Rosary" (1925)
"The Cobbler" (1925)
"Chance" (1925)
"Sunset" (1925)
"The Kid Learns" (1925)
"The Liar" (1925)
"Home" (1925)
"Episode" (1925)
"Country Mice" (1925)
"Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" (1925)
"Music - Sweeter than the Angels Sing"
"A Rose for Emily" (1930)
"Honor" (1930)
"Thrift" (1930)
"Red Leaves" (1930)
"Ad Astra" (1931)
"Dry September" (1931)
"That Evening Sun" (1931)
"Hair" (1931)
"Spotted Horses" (1931)
"The Hound" (1931)
"Fox Hunt" (1931)
"Carcassonne" (1931)
"Divorce in Naples" (1931)
"Victory" (1931)
"All the Dead Pilots" (1931)
"Crevasse" (1931)
"Mistral" (1931)
"A Justice" (1931)
"Dr. Martino" (1931)
"Idyll in the Desert" (1931)
"Miss Zilphia Grant" (1932)
"Death Drag" (1932)
"Centaur in Brass" (1932)
"Once Aboard the Lugger (I)" (1932)
"Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (1932)
"Turnabout" (1932)
"Smoke" (1932)
"Mountain Victory" (1932)
"There Was a Queen" (1933)
"Artist at Home" (1933)
"Beyond" (1933)
"Elly" (1934)
"Pennsylvania Station" (1934)
"Wash" (1934)
"A Bear Hunt" (1934)
"The Leg" (1934)
"Black Music" (1934)
"Mule in the Yard" (1934)
"Ambuscade" (1934)
"Retreat" (1934)
"Lo!" (1934)
"Raid" (1934)
"Skirmish at Sartoris" (1935)
"Golden Land" (1935)
"That Will Be Fine" (1935)
"Uncle Willy" (1935)
"Lion" (1935)
"The Brooch" (1936)
"Two Dollar Wife" (1936)
"Fool About a Horse" (1936)
"The Unvanquished" (1936)
"Vendee" (1936)
"Monk" (1937)
"Barn Burning" (1939)
"Hand Upon the Waters" (1939)
"A Point of Law" (1940)
"The Old People" (1940)
"Pantaloon in Black" (1940)
"Gold Is Not Always" (1940)
"Tomorrow" (1940)
"The Tall Men" (1941)
"Two Soldiers" (1942)
"Delta Autumn" (1942)
"The Bear" (1942)
"Afternoon of a Cow" (1943)
"Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (1943)
"Shall Not Perish" (1943)
"Appendix, Compson, 1699-1945" (1946)
"An Error in Chemistry" (1946)
"A Courtship" (1948)
"Knight's Gambit" (1949)
"A Name for the City" (1950)
"Notes on a Horsethief" (1951)
"Mississippi" (1954)
"Sepulture South: Gaslight" (1954)
"Race at Morning" (1955)
"By the People" (1955)
"Hell Creek Crossing" (1962)
"Mr. Acarius" (1965)
"The Wishing Tree" (1967)
"Al Jackson" (1971)
"And Now What's To Do" (1973)
"Nympholepsy" (1973)
"The Priest" (1976)
"Mayday" (1977)
"Frankie and Johnny" (1978)
"Don Giovanni" (1979)
"Peter" (1979)
"A Portrait of Elmer" (1979)
"Adolescence" (1979)
"Snow" (1979)
"Moonlight" (1979)
"With Caution and Dispatch" (1979)
"Hog Pawn" (1979)
"A Dangerous Man" (1979)
"A Return" (1979)
"The Big Shot" (1979)
"Once Aboard the Lugger (II)" (1979)
"Dull Tale" (1979)
"Evangeline" (1979)
"Love" (1988)
"Christmas Tree" (1995)
"Rose of Lebanon" (1995)
"Lucas Beauchamp" (1999)
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Poetry
Vision in Spring (1921)
The Marble Faun (1924)
A Green Bough (1933)
This Earth, a Poem (1932)
Mississippi Poems (1979)
Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems (1981)

2006-09-03 12:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It was as I first seriously pondered this question, nestled surreptitiously there among the other, more innocuous questions in the "Other- Society & Culture" niche of Yahoo!Answers, that I conceptualized it was a trick question, a dainty of tomfoolery created to give the impression of real questionry, a pun, an antic, a bon mot, a clear case of monkeyshine waiting there to trip us all into attempts to provide a simple, single title from Faulkner's hefty atheneum that could credibly be labeled the very one that made him "famous"!

2006-09-03 12:30:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"As I Lay Dying" is fairly famous. I believe many high schools have this book on their list of required reading.

2006-09-03 12:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by khender 2 · 0 0

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