Books like Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories, among them A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning and Dry September, set mostly in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and in the wars.
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The Unvanquished
Bayard Sartoris and his friend Ringo, a slave boy his own age, grow up in Mississippi through the Civil War and Reconstruction, while Bayard's father, Colonel John Sartoris, rides with his raiders.
Flags in the Dust
Young Bayard Sartoris comes home to Jefferson, Mississippi, from the air war in France, tormented by his twin brother's death, and drives his car and his family toward ruin.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor's final story collection, published posthumously, with nine stories of grace and violence in the Jim Crow South.
A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
The Little Friend
Twelve years after her brother was found hanged in the family yard, a fierce twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi decides she knows who killed him and sets out for revenge.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's stories and short novels, among them Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine and Flowering Judas, set in Texas, Mexico and the South.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Ten stories of violence, grace, and the grotesque in the rural South, where moments of divine revelation arrive alongside shotgun blasts and stolen wooden legs.
Airships
Short stories about Southern men in love and at war, from Jeb Stuart's cavalry to Vietnam, written in sentences that swing from tenderness to violence without warning.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Larry Ott has lived as an outcast in a small Mississippi town since a girl he took on a date vanished twenty-five years ago. When another girl goes missing, the town's constable is Silas Jones, the Black boy he was friends with as a child.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister, and their drug-addicted mother drive across Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman prison, and the ghost of a boy who died there rides home with them.
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward remembers five young Black men from her Mississippi Gulf Coast town, her brother among them, who died in the space of four years, and asks what the country takes from them.