Barn Burning

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Abner Snopes is accused of burning Mr. Harris’s barn, and his son, Colonel Sartoris Snopes (“Sarty”) is convinced that the people of the court are his family’s enemies. Sarty fiercely aligns himself with his father, placing his loyalty to blood and kin above his faith in the justice system. “Barn Burning” is a prequel to William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy, which includes The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. Although primarily known for his novels, William Faulkner wrote in a variety of formats, including plays, poetry, essays, screenplays, and short stories, many of which are highly acclaimed and anthologized. Like his novels, many of Faulkner’s short stories are set in fictional Yoknapatawapha County, a setting inspired by Lafayette County, where Faulkner spent most of his life. His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes many of his most frequently anthologized stories, including "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves" and "That Evening Sun." (source (opens in a new tab)) ---------- Also contained in: - Arbor House Treasury of Nobel Prize Winners - Backpack Literature: Fifth Edition - Collected Stories of William Faulkner (opens in a new tab) - Complex Vision (opens in a new tab) - Dr Martino and Other Stories (opens in a new tab) - Experience of literature - Fathers & sons - Faulkner Reader (opens in a new tab) - Fiction: A Pocket Anthology: Fifth Edition - Fiction 100 - Fictions - First-prize stories 1919-1966 - Great American Short Stories (opens in a new tab) - Great short stories of the 20th century - Literature - Meistererzählungen - Moderns and Contemporaries - Modes of fiction - Norton Anthology of Short Fiction - Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition - Norton Introduction to Fiction - Quest for meaning - Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (opens in a new tab) - Short Story - Situation of the Story

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