Selected Short Stories of Faulkner (Modern Library) (Modern Library (Hardcover))

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The contents are worth the effort of overcoming the strange dialect of the southern USA. Gives a great feeling of time and place and holds attention. The book is well produced and has a good feel.

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Fantastic collection of Faulkner short stories! Anyone who hasn't read much of Faulkner will get a great introduction to his writing style and thematics; anyone who has read (and loved him) Faulkner will be captivated as always. He isn't know (obviously) for his short stories, but this collection will show anyone why he ought to be. It's definitely more digestible than his longer works, which most people either don't have the patience for or are intimated by. I recommend this book for those who have never read Faulkner and those who love his work. For those that abhor his work, give his short stories a chance! They're similar but not the same!

I read him in university and when I looked in my personal library and found him to be not part of it, I had to order at least one book of his I can have on my shelf.

Intriguing narratives of an American life now almost forgotten. You can feel the suffering and violence in his writing. Each story captures you, surrounding you in smells and textures, personalities and inner dialogues, driving you to the finish. The last time I felt this kind of movement in a story was in reading Virginia Wolff's "Orlando".

It is a shame to admit that, as an English major, this is my first time to really read Mr. Faulkner. And in short, I was for the most part delighted in the reading and dismayed that my teachers and professors didn't have us read this. Alas, such is Midwestern education I suppose. Faulkner's short stories are intricate - worth reading slowly with a glass of bourbon or sweet tea on the table, perhaps even rereading. I was expecting much more of "the South" in the tales, but what I found was that Faulkner (at least in these short stories) was much more interested in delving the depths of the human spirit and what makes us tick across the globe than his own native Mississippi. The only frustration I encountered came when I tried to read too quickly, Mister Faulkner's text is not meant for speed, but for consideration.