About the book: 1977 / “The most difficult form since the poem,” as William Faulkner called the short story, attracted the outstanding American writer from his first steps in literature. He published his first series of stories and essays in 1925, and his name immediately attracted the attention of the reading public. The author found rich food for his works in everyday life. His work is characterized by the depiction of the grotesque, illogical, paradoxical - all those bizarre interweavings of seemingly heterogeneous and even incompatible principles, the very indissolubility of which appears to be the most characteristic feature of American reality and the spiritual make-up of the “little people” of America. The book was translated from an edition published during Faulkner’s lifetime in 1950.