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Name: A reader's guide to William Faulkner
Author: Edmond Loris Volpe

📘 A reader's guide to William Faulkner by Edmond Loris Volpe

Edmond Loris Volpe’s guide offers detailed appraisals of all 71 of William Faulkner’s short stories, including titles that were never published or incorporated into his novels. By examining each work individually, the study illuminates how the stories relate to Faulkner’s larger novels and demonstrates the author’s skill in narrative structure, creative imagination, and mastery of the short‑fiction form, despite Faulkner’s own ambivalence toward the genre.

First publish date: 1964

Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories

Authors: Edmond Loris Volpe

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