William Faulkner - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949 (62 books)

* William Faulkner - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949 (62 books)

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897–1962) stands as one of the most innovative and influential writers in American literature, celebrated for his stylistic daring, psychological depth, and profound engagement with the American South. Born in Oxford, Mississippi, he drew heavily on the cultural, historical, and social textures of his region, transforming local experience into narratives of universal resonance. He received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."

Central to Faulkner’s artistic identity is his creation of Yoknapatawpha County , a richly imagined fictional territory modeled on Lafayette County, Mississippi. This mythic landscape serves as the setting for many of his major works and allows him to trace, across decades, the fortunes and failures of several interconnected families. Through these overlapping narratives, Faulkner explores themes of memory and time, racial injustice, class conflict, and the legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The density and continuity of this fictional world place him in a lineage with writers such as Balzac and Hardy, whose regional universes illuminate broader human truths.

Faulkner’s principal novels exhibit extraordinary formal experimentation. THE SOUND AND THE FURY (1929), perhaps his most audacious work, employs multiple narrators and non-linear chronology to depict the dissolution of the Compson family. AS I LAY DYING (1930) continues this experimentation with a chorus of interior monologues that follow the Bundren family’s darkly comic and tragic journey to bury their matriarch. In LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932), Faulkner intertwines narratives of race, identity, and violence to expose the volatile moral terrain of the South. These novels reveal his fascination with the fragmented nature of consciousness and the instability of truth.

His achievements were not limited to these early masterpieces. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! (1936), often regarded as his greatest novel, delves into the rise and fall of the Sutpen dynasty, probing the corrosive effects of slavery and ambition. Later works such as GO DOWN, MOSES (1942) and INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1948) further examine the South’s racial legacy, while REQUIEM FOR A NUN (1951) and THE REIVERS (1962) illustrate the evolution of his style toward more overtly dramatic and, at times, humorous modes.

In addition to Faulkner's complete novels and stories, this torrent includes his poetry, letters, essays, speeches, plays, screenplays, interviews, and a handful of uncollected pieces.


The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as noted:

== NOVELS ==

* Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2025) – ePUB
* As I Lay Dying [ed. Gorra, 2e] (Norton Critical, 2022) – PDF
* A Fable (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Father Abraham [ed. Meriwether] (Random House, 2011) – ePUB
* Flags in the Dust (Vintage, 2012) – ePUB
* Go Down, Moses (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Hamlet [Snopes I] (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Intruder in the Dust (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Knight's Gambit (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Light in August: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Mansion [Snopes III] (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Mosquitoes (Liveright, 2020) – ePUB
* Mosquitoes (Vintage, 2023) – ePUB
* Novels, 1930-1935 [ed. Blotner & Polk] (LOA #25, 1985) – PDF^
* Novels, 1936-1940 [ed. Blotner & Polk] (LOA #48, 1990) – PDF^
* Novels, 1942-1954 [ed. Blotner & Polk] (LOA #73, 1994) – PDF^
* Novels, 1957-1962 [ed. Polk & Blotner] (LOA #112, 1999) – PDF^
* Pylon: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Reivers (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Requiem for a Nun (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Sanctuary: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Sartoris (Open Road, 2025) – ePUB
* Snopes Trilogy (Modern Library, 2011) – ePUB
* Soldiers' Pay (Liveright, 2011) – ePUB
* Soldiers' Pay (Vintage, 2023) – ePUB
* Sound and the Fury [ed. Gorra, 3e] (Norton Critical, 2014) – ePUB
* Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2025) – ePUB
* The Town [Snopes II] (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Wild Palms (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB

== SHORT FICTION & NOVELLAS ==

* A Rose for Emily & Other Stories (Random House, 2012) – ePUB
* Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Collected Stories (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Mayday (Notre Dame, 1978) – PDF
* New Orleans Sketches [ed. Collins] (Mississippi, 2002) – ePUB / PDF
* Selected Short Stories (Modern Library, 1961/2011) – ePUB / PDF
* These 13: Stories (Random House, 2013) – ePUB
* Three Famous Short Novels (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Uncollected Stories (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB

== POETRY ==

* Early Prose and Poetry [ed. Collins] (Little Brown, 1962) – PDF
* The Marble Faun & A Green Bough (Random House, 2011) – ePUB
* Ole Miss Juvenilia (Dover Thrift Editions, 2018) – ePUB
* Vision in Spring [ed. Sensibar] (Texas, 1984) – PDF

== PLAYS ==

* Marionettes: A Play in One Act [ed. Polk] (Virginia, 1977) – PDF

== SCREENPLAYS ==

* The Big Sleep [screenplay] (1946 [1971]) – PDF
* Country Lawyer & Other Stories for the Screen (Mississippi, 1987) – ePUB / PDF
* Faulkner's MGM Screenplays [ed. Kawin] (Tennessee, 1982) – PDF
* The Road to Glory [ed. Bruccoli] (Southern Illinois, 1981) – PDF
* Stallion Road [ed. Brodsky & Hamblin] (Mississippi, 1989) – PDF
* To Have and Have Not [ed. Kawin] (Wisconsin, 1980) – PDF
* William Faulkner at 20th Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays [ed. Gleeson-White] (Oxford, 2017) – ePUB / PDF

== NON-FICTION ==

* Essays, Speeches & Public Letters (Modern Library, 2004) – ePUB
* Faulkner at West Point [ed. Fant] (Random House, 1964) – PDF
* Faulkner in the University [ed. Gwynn & Blotner] (Virginia, 1995) – PDF

== FOR CHILDREN ==

* The Wishing Tree (Random House, 2012) – ePUB

== LETTERS ==

* The Faulkner-Cowley File [Malcolm Cowley] (Viking, 1966) – PDF
* Selected Letters [ed. Blotner] (Random House, 1977) – PDF
* Thinking of Home: Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 [ed. Watson] (Norton, 1992) – PDF

== INTERVIEWS ==

* Conversations with Faulkner [ed. Inge] (Mississippi, 1999) – PDF
* Lion in the Garden: Interviews [ed. Meriwether] (Random, 1968) – PDF

== ANTHOLOGIES ==

* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2019) – ePUB
* Essential Faulkner [ed. Cowley] (Modern Library, 2012) – ePUB
* The Faulkner Reader (Modern Library, 2011) – ePUB
* Portable Faulkner [ed. Cowley, Revised & Expanded] (Penguin, 1989) – PDF

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