Big Woods

by William Faulkner

Overview

"The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"—some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume—in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679752523
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/26/1994
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	278,297
Product dimensions:	5.23(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.

Date of Birth:

September 25, 1897

Date of Death:

July 6, 1962

Place of Birth:

New Albany, Mississippi

Place of Death:

Byhalia, Mississippi

What People are Saying About This

Edmund Wilson

Faulkner... belongs to the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust.

Ralph Ellison

For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must return to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics.

Robert Penn Warren

For all the range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country.

Editorial Reviews

The first paperback edition of the 1955 collection of four stories about nature and hunting includes The Bear and Race at Morning . (May)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This 1955 title combines the four stories "The Bear," "The Old People," "A Bear Hunt," and "Race at Morning," gleaned from assorted Faulkner works.

Library Journal