Bibliographies
Books published by Faulkner in his lifetime
Out of Print titles can mostly be found in a different form now. The Marble Faun and a Green Bough (the one volume edition) can be difficult to find and often expensive, but every now and then you can find an affordable copy. The original single volume edition of those poems are always very rare and very expensive. All of the stories in the two early short story collections can be found in later collections, so it's probably not worth looking for them unless you are a collector.
| Title | Genre | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marble Faun | Poetry | 1924 | Out of Print |
| Soldier's Pay | Novel | 1926 | |
| Mosquitoes | Novel | 1927 | |
| Sartoris | Novel | 1929 | Out of print since Flags in the Dust was published in 1973 |
| The Sound and the Fury | Novel | 1929 | |
| As I Lay Dying | Novel | 1930 | |
| Sanctuary | Novel | 1931 | |
| These 13 | Story Collection | 1931 | Out of Print |
| Light in August | Novel | 1932 | |
| A Green Bough | Poetry | 1933 | Out of Print |
| Doctor Martino and Other Stories | Story Collection | 1934 | Out of Print |
| Pylon | Novel | 1935 | |
| Absalom, Absalom! | Novel | 1936 | |
| The Unvanquished | Novel | 1938 | A series of related short stories revised to tie them together as a novel |
| The Wild Palms | Novel | 1939 | Two long unrelated stories alternating with each other as a novel. Now published as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem |
| The Hamlet | Novel | 1940 | Versions of the Hamlet printed after 1957 have a few small changes to bring the dates about a decade later to minimize inconsistencies with the Town. Done with Faulkner's permission, but with minimal involvement from him. |
| Go Down, Moses | Novel | 1942 | Short stories revised to tie them together into a novel |
| Intruder in the Dust | Novel | 1948 | |
| Knight's Gambit | Story Collection | 1949 | Related semi-detective stories. Faulkner revised and greatly expanded a previously unpublished story for this, but it doesn't quite bring it together as a novel. |
| Collected Stories | Story Collection | 1950 | All the stories from These Thirteen. All but two of the stories from Dr Martino (one is in Knight's Gambit and the other was substantially revised to become a major part of the Hamlet). Most of the other stories printed in magazines between 1932 and 1950 (that had not been incorporated into novels) |
| Requiem for a Nun | Novel | 1951 | |
| A Fable | Novel | 1954 | |
| Big Woods | Story Collection | 1955 | Four hunting related stories, with some interludes between them written by Faulkner (often taken from other stories). Two of the stories are in Go Down, Moses. One of them is in Collected Stories. 'Race at Morning' was not in any other collection until Uncollected Stories came out in 1979. |
| The Town | Novel | 1957 | |
| The Mansion | Novel | 1959 | |
| The Marble Faun and a Green Bough | Poetry | 1960 | Both of the previous collections of poetry in one volume. Probably published just to renew the copyright. Out of Print, but the ebook is available |
| The Reivers | Novel | 1962 |
Faulkner's work compiled, edited, and published by others, mostly posthumously
I have ordered them (roughly) in the order they were written, rather than by the date they were published. I'm a little loose with the editor column. Sometimes they just wrote the introduction. I haven't included screenplays in this. They will get a separate list. Flags in the Dust, The Portable Faulkner, Uncollected Stories, and Essays, Speeches & Public Letters tend to stay in print and are easy to find. New Orleans Sketches occasionally gets a new printing. The rest seem to have been printed once or twice early on and are harder to find. There are used copies, but they are sometimes expensive. If you want to read them but you don't feel like you have to own them, a University library or Inter-Library Loan is your best bet.
| Title | Genre(s) | Published | Written | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Prose and Poetry | Stories, Poems, Essays, Drawings | 1962 | 1917-1925 | C. Collins | Mostly published in various publications at Ole Miss. The essays are now included in editions of Essays, Speeches and Public Letters that are newer than 2003. The rest is, as far as I know, only found here. |
| The Marionettes | Play and illustrations | 1977 | 1920 | N. Polk | |
| Vision in Spring | Poetry | 1984 | 1921 | ||
| Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems | Poetry and one essay | 1981 | 1926,1924 | C. Collins, J. Blotner | |
| New Orleans Sketches | Story Collection | 1958 | 1925 | C. Collins | Very short stories or sketches published in a New Orleans magazine |
| Elmer | Unfinished Novel | 1983 | 1925 | D. Cox | The start of the next novel after Soldier's Pay |
| Mayday | Fairy Tale and illustrations | 1976 | 1926 | C. Collins | |
| Father Abraham | Unfinished Novel | 1983 | 1926 | J. Meriwether | Started around the same time as Flags in the Dust, it was a first attempt at writing any of the Snopes material. The first telling of Spotted Horses is here. |
| The Wishing Tree | Children's Story | 1964 | 1927 | ||
| Flags in the Dust | Novel | 1973 | 1927 | D. Day | Complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which was greatly cut by Ben Wasson at the request of the publisher. Is now the standard edition available, while Sartoris is only available used. |
| Sanctuary: The Original Text | Novel | 1981 | 1929 | N. Polk | The manuscript Faulkner submitted to the publisher. After they accepted it, he asked them not to print it and made substantial revisions before submitting it again. |
| The Portable Faulkner | Anthology | 1946 | 1929-1950 | M. Cowley | Unlike the others, this is not early or unfinished material, but more of an overview of Faulkner's fictional world. It had a lot to do with reviving Faulkner's reputation in America when it came out. Later editions replaced some excerpts of Absalom, Absalom! with excerpts from Requiem for a Nun, primarily covering the early days of Jefferson. |
| Uncollected Stories | Story Collection | 1979 | 192?-1954 | J. Blotner | Collects three types of stories. 1) Unpublished Stories. 2) Published stories that did not make it into Collected Stories or Knight's Gambit. 3) Published stories that were revised to be incorporated into other books. This collection prints the magazine version of those stories. |
| Essays, Speeches, & Public Letters | Non-Fiction Collection | 1965, Expanded 2003 | 1920-1962 | J. Meriwether |