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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.
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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.
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.
The Optimist's Daughter
A woman returns to Mississippi after her father's death and has to contend with his young second wife and her own memories of home.
Delta Wedding
A Delta plantation family gathers for a daughter's wedding in 1923, and every cousin, aunt, and uncle crowds in.
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.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
The Thibaults
Two brothers, Antoine, a dutiful young doctor, and Jacques, a rebel who runs away from school, grow up under their overbearing Catholic father in Paris in the years before the First World War.
Joe
Joe Ransom, a hard-drinking ex-convict who runs a crew poisoning trees for a timber company in north Mississippi, takes on a teenage boy from a drifter family and tries to protect him from his own father.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
Home
A traumatised Black Korean War veteran travels across 1950s America to save his sister from a medical experiment.