| New York: Viking
Press, 1946.
Revised edition 1967.
xxxvii, 724 pages.
Edited by Malcolm Cowley
Strictly speaking, The Portable Faulkner
is not a collection of short stories; rather, it is an attempt
by Malcolm Cowley, a respected critic and scholar, to draw
attention to a writer whose works, at the time, were almost
entirely out of print. His effort — to unify the seemingly
chaotic landscape of Faulkner’s fiction — was widely
seen as a triumph, including by Faulkner himself, who wrote
in a letter to Cowley, “The job is splendid. Damn you
to hell anyway. But even if I had beat you to the idea, mine
wouldn't have been this good. By God, I didn’t know myself
what I had tried to do, and how much I had succeeded.”
If nothing else, Cowley’s compilation
introduced the writer’s work to a new generation of readers
and finally achieved the critical and popular acclaim that
thus far had eluded Faulkner. The only “new” piece
of writing in The Portable Faulkner was the appendix
to The Sound and the Fury which
Faulkner wrote especially for the collection, but because
the work is collected in roughly chronological order, it is
easier to see a kind of sweeping saga set in Yoknapatawpha
County.
The revised edition makes several changes
over the original, but for the most part the text is the same
as the original publication in 1946. Each numbered section
of the work begin with an “Editor’s Note”
by Cowley.
Note: Title links
lead to more detailed bibliographical and publication information
on each work, not to the work itself.
Table of Contents
The Old People
1820.
A Justice
1933.
The Courthouse (A Name for the City)
(from Requiem for a Nun)
18---.
Red Leaves
1959.
Was
(from Go Down, Moses)
The Unvanquished
1864.
Raid
(from The Unvanquished)
1869.
Wash
1874.
An Odor of Verbena
(from The Unvanquished)
The Last Wilderness
1883.
The Bear
(from Go Down, Moses)
The Peasants
1908.
Spotted Horses
(from The Hamlet)
The End of an Order
1902.
That Evening Sun
1918.
Ad Astra
1924.
A Rose for Emily
1928.
Dilsey
(from The Sound and the Fury)
Mississippi Flood
1927.
Old Man
(from The Wild Palms)
Modern Times
1928.
Death Drag
1929.
Uncle Bud and the Three Madams
(from Sanctuary)
1930.
Percy Grimm
(from Light in August)
1940.
Delta Autumn
(from Go Down, Moses)
The Undying Past
1951. The Jail (Nor Even Yet Quite Relinquish
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(from Requiem for a Nun)
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