This invaluable volume contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections; previously unpublished short fiction; and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. With its Introduction and extensive notes by the biographer Joseph Blotner, Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author's canon -- as well as a book of some of the most haunting, harrowing, and atmospheric short fiction written in this century.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Stories Revised for Later Books
  • The Unvanquished
    • Ambuscade
    • Retreat
    • Raid
    • Skirmish at Sartois
    • The Unvanquished
    • Vendée
  • The Hamlet
    • Fool About a Horse
    • Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard
    • The Hound
    • Spotted Horses
  • Go Down, Moses
    • Lion
    • The Old People
    • A Point of Law
    • Gold Is Not Always
    • Pantaloon in Black
    • Go Down, Moses
    • Delta Autumn
    • The Bear
  • Big Woods
    • Race at Morning
  • The Mansion
    • Hog Pawn
• Uncollected Stories
  • Nympholepsy
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • The Priest
  • Once Aboard the Lugger (I)
  • Once Aboard the Lugger (II)
  • Miss Zilphia Gant
  • Thrift
  • Idyll in the Desert
  • Two Dollar Wife
  • Afternoon of a Cow
  • Mr. Acarius
  • Sepulture South: Gaslight
• Unpublished Stories
  • Adolescence
  • Al Jackson
  • Don Giovanni
  • Peter
  • Moonlight
  • The Big Shot
  • Dull Tale
  • A Return
  • A Dangerous Man
  • Evangeline
  • A Portrait of Elmer
  • With Caution and Dispatch
  • Snow
• Notes and Bibliography