The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
10 best books like The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (William Faulkner): Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands, Billy Budd and Other Tales, Prose and Poetry: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders / War Is Kind, The Selected Poetry, Selected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Poems and Translations, Selected Prose, Slave Narratives, The Collected Stories
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 1931082030 |
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.
"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0451526872 |
Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.
[That was sarcasm.]
His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0940450178 |
This Library of America volume shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. This comprehensive collection includes all his most accomplished and best-known...
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0804741085 |
In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and...
| Author | Louis MacNeice |
| ISBN | 0571233813 |
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
| Author | Louise Bogan |
| ISBN | 0374524610 |
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.
Roman Fountain
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| Author | Ezra Pound |
| ISBN | 1931082413 |
Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. From the swirling center of poetic change he excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and William Carlos Williams and championed the Imagism and Vorticism movements. This volume, the most comprehensive...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0156806541 |
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited...
| Author | William L. Andrews |
| ISBN | 1883011760 |
No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 1400096561 |
Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.
This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1590171624 |
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait...
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 0140437568 |
Questing after Pancho Villa’s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil’s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierce’s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil...
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green And Other Stories / The Wide Net and Other Stories
| Author | Eudora Welty |
| ISBN | 0679600027 |
Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. 'I've stayed in one place, ' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination'. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 1883011868 |
The second volume traces Williams' career as it evolved in his adventurous and sometimes shocking later works, including Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sweet Bird of Youth, plays that deal with acts of horrific violence; the satiric Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, a...
| Author | Stevie Smith |
| ISBN | 0811208826 |
This New Directions Paperbook brings back into print the 1975 Oxford University Press edition of Stevie Smith’s Collected Poems, her complete poetic works edited by her long-time friend James MacGibbon. "On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred...
| Author | Robert Penn Warren |
| ISBN | 0394405021 |
There are some books I love, and others I respect or emulate and admire. All the King's Men managed to be all three; indeed, as I write this an hour or two after finishing, I am hard-pressed to describe either the book or my feelings for it, except to say that it is a big aching book, big as life itself, and that...
| Author | Randall Kenan |
| ISBN | 0156505150 |
The book (a collection of short stories) centers on the residents of Tims Creek, NC, and has me looking at people in the grocery store differently. I mean, EVERYONE has some freakishly interesting story in their life--yes?--and that's the rock Kenan flips & roots around beneath. A minister eulogizes...
| Author | James Welch |
| ISBN | 0393329380 |
I will hand my Creative Writing degree track this: it opened me up to a plethora of authors and genres that I would have never previously looked twice at. "The Indian Lawyer" is one such book that I may have never looked at had it not been assigned to me. And the result...is gratitude.
This book gives...
| Author | Peter Taylor |
| ISBN | 0312146957 |
From the grand master of the American short story, these fourteen tales of domestic life in the South during the thirties and forties explore that extraordinary world of manners, expectations and unspoken understanding. The reader is drawn as if by magnetic force into a world rendered in breathtaking,...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0679724648 |
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages...
