The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner · 1950
"A Rose for Emily" and 41 other stories from Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner's short fiction is as towering as his novels.
The case against
Magazine money paid for a fair number of these, Faulkner admitted as much, and you can tell which: the aviation tales and the ghostly Beyond section are hack work in a genius's handwriting. For every Rose for Emily there are three Post potboilers. His sentences resist the short form too; the best pieces here read like trapped novels.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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