, the final collection of William Faulkner’s short stories to appear in his lifetime, was published by Random House on 14 October 1955 (Blotner and Polk, 1099). To make it “a deluxe volume” (Blotner, 1522), Random House arranged to have the book illustrated by Edward Shenton, who had also done illustrations for
The Unvanquished(1938). The collection includes four previously published stories that Faulkner structures into an integrated whole by linking them with transitional passages he called “interrupted catalysts” (Faulkner,
Lion in the Garden, 83), brief passages revised from several of his other works that fuse “with the stories as they both provided historical perspective and emphasized the elegiac note” (Blotner, 1522-23). Faulkner proposed the collection to…
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