Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, the Bear

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." --William Faulkner

These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the "cold practicality" of women against the boyish folly of men. Old Man is something of an adventure story. When a flood ravages the countryside of the lower Mississippi, a convict finds himself adrift with a pregnant woman. And The Bear, perhaps his best known shorter work, is the story of a boy's coming to terms wit the adult world. By learning how to hunt, the boy is taught the real meaning of pride, humility, and courage.

Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.32w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780307946751
ISBN10: 0307946754
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Classics

About the Author
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.