The world of William Faulkner, almost entirely concentrated within a county of his imagination, has become a commanding feature of the literary geography of America. In his novels and short stories he has portrayed the South in war and in peace, in  reconstruction and regression.  This volume is arranged to offer a generous and representative cross-section of William Faulkner's work. Its wide range of selection encompasses not only a full-length novel, three novellas and a substantial representation of his short stories, but also his famous Nobel Prize Address.  This volume is a selected harvest of three decades of Faulkner's writings, and with it is a summing-up, in the nature of a Foreword written especially for this book, in which William Faulkner for the first time declares his credo as a writer.