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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Marble Faun (1924)
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- These Thirteen (1931)
- Salmagundi and Miss Zilphia Gant (1932)
- Light in August (1932)
- A Green Bough (1933)
- Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- The Wild Palms (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses and Other Stories (1942)
- The Portable Faulkner (1946)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- Notes on a Horsethief (1950)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- Mirrors of Chartres Street (1954)
- The Faulkner Reader (1954)
- A Fable (1954)
- Big Woods (1955)
- The Town (1957)
- New Orleans Sketches (1958)
- Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
- Index
Big Woods (1955)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Marble Faun (1924)
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- These Thirteen (1931)
- Salmagundi and Miss Zilphia Gant (1932)
- Light in August (1932)
- A Green Bough (1933)
- Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- The Wild Palms (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses and Other Stories (1942)
- The Portable Faulkner (1946)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- Notes on a Horsethief (1950)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- Mirrors of Chartres Street (1954)
- The Faulkner Reader (1954)
- A Fable (1954)
- Big Woods (1955)
- The Town (1957)
- New Orleans Sketches (1958)
- Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
- Index
Summary
Lewis Gannett. “Big Woods.” New York Herald Tribune, October 14, 1955, p. 27.
This is Mr. Faulkner's hymn to the Mississippi he has lived and loved. The dust-jacket calls the book “The Hunting Stories of William Faulkner.” Indeed, it consists of two of Mr. Faulkner's finest stories, “The Bear” and “The Old People,” somewhat rewritten, which appeared in “Go Down, Moses” in 1942 and have been often reprinted since; of “A Bear Hunt,” which appeared in Dr. Martino in 1934, and of a new story, “Race at Morning,” which carries on into old age the saga of Ike McCaslin, hunter. But, put together with new connective tissue–story, legend, poetry and memory–it is something new. It is Mr. Faulkner's fabulous Old Testament.
“It was his native land,” the old man meditates who was young in the first of the stories. “He had been born in it, and his bones would sleep in it … the hills along whose edge the plantation lay where he had been born and where old Sam Fathers, son of a Negro slave and a Chickasaw king, had trained and taught him how to use a gun with care and respect, in order to be worthy to enter the Big Woods when the time came.”
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- William FaulknerThe Contemporary Reviews, pp. 419 - 432Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995