The master of the short tale was William Faulkner. The majority of the pieces in this collection date from his most productive period as a writer, almost fifteen years beginning in 1929, when he released The Sound and the Fury. They cover many of the themes addressed in the novels and include Faulkner's characters from small-town Mississippi life. The Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's magisterial collection of short pieces reminds...