First published in 1942, this novel is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Told from varying viewpoints, the novel examines the complex relationships between whites and blacks, man and nature. -- adapted from publisher's summary.

Contains forty-five of Faulkner's stories that were previously uncollected in the form in which they were first written.

Three novels include two from the Snopes trilogy, "The Town," and "The Mansion," which portrays the downfall of the rapacious, cruel dynasty, and a lesser-known comic novel "The Reivers," which is set around a Memphis brothel