The original creativity of William Faulkner (1897-1962), high humanism and the true mastery of his prose bring the writer to the forefront of not only American, but also world literature. This collected works presents the main works that characterize all periods of W. Faulkner's work.

The first volume of the Collected Works includes the early novels: “A Soldier’s Award” (1926) and “Sartoris” (1929) , which opens the “Yoknapatawpha Saga” - a series of works about the small county of Yoknapatawpha in Mississippi created by the writer’s imagination.

The novel “Sartoris” reveals the tragedy of the young generation of southerners who find themselves victims of the confrontation between the beautiful legend of the past and reality their modern life. Having grown up under the spell of stories about the heroic past of their families, they find themselves helpless when they come face to face with reality.