William Faulkner

An American author.

The Sound and the Fury

There are 4 sections narrated by the Compson family: Benjy. Harvard student Quentin, whose ties with sister Caddy shattered by her loveless marriage. Jason, who keeps money Caddy sends to support daughter Quentin. black cook Dilsey

Soldiers’ Pay

The Reivers

Sanctuary

Popeye rapes Temple Drake with corn cob and takes her to a Memphis brothel, but she protest him and testifies against Lee Goodwin, defended by Horace Benbow, and Goodwin is lynched

The Hamlet - The Town - The Mansion trilogy

Flem Snopes becomes part owner of Will Varner’s store in Frenchman’s Bend and marries his daughter Eula. becomes VP of bank in Jefferson and drives president Manfred De Spain from town. Gavin Stevens loves Eula and her daughter Linda

Go Down Moses

series of stories about McCaslin family in Yoknapatawpha County, including Was, The Fire and the Hearth, Pantaloon in Black, and The Bear [hunt for Big Ben]

Light in August

part-black Joe Christmas employed by Joe Brown has affair with Joanna Burden and kills her. Christmas is killed by mob. pregnant Lena Grove comes to Jefferson looking for her lover. Reverend Gail Hightower loses his church because of devotion to the past

Absalom Absalom

Thomas Sutpen elected colonel in Jefferson Mississippi’s Civil War regiment. daughter Judith’s lover Charles Bon killed by Sutpen’s son

As I Lay Dying

husband Anse and kids Cash, Darl, Jewel, Vardaman, and Dewey Dell carry body of Addie Bundren to Jefferson Mississippi

A Fable

allegory of Jesus in WWI France

Knight’s Gambit

stories involving Detective Gavin Stevens, including Monk

Requiem for a Nun

Temple Drake marries Gowan Stevens. Pete blackmails her. black servant Nancy Manningoe kills her youngest child, but Temple also is responsible

Intruder in the Dust

Chick Mallison, Aleck Sander, and Miss Eunice Habersham prove innocence of non-servile black Lucas Beuchamp

Sartoris

Col. John Sartoris’s descendant Bayard returns from WWI guilty about brother John’s death. grandfather dies of heart attack in car. Bayard marries Horace Benbow’s sister Narcissa. Bayard dies as Ohio test pilot

The Unvanquished

7 stories about Sartoris family during Civil War. adventures of Bayard Sartoris and black companion Ringo

These Thirteen

short stories including A Rose for Emily [Southern spinster Emily Grierson locks Yankee construction worker Homer Barron, who courted her, in upstairs bedroom, where he dies]