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Flem Snopes, son of a barn-burning tenant farmer, takes a job clerking in Will Varner's store at Frenchman's Bend, and his family begins to take over the hamlet.
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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 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 Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
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.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.
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.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
Murphy
Murphy, an Irishman in London who likes nothing better than to tie himself naked in a rocking chair, is pushed by Celia, the prostitute who loves him, into finding a job, and finds one in a mental hospital.
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Felix Krull, the handsome son of a bankrupt Rhineland champagne maker, sets out to make his way through Paris hotels and European society on charm, mimicry and imposture.
The Orchard Keeper
A young man in 1930s east Tennessee discovers a dead man's belongings in a decaying orchard, and the mystery draws him into a world of moonshiners and outlaws.
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.