William Faulkner Audio Downloads

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling", the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.

This collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets....

The Reivers is a picaresque story that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi....

Absalom, Absalom! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s....

Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice....

Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake....

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

William Faulkner never stood taller than five feet, six inches, but in the realm of American literature, he is a giant.

"Rendered by the author with a rich deep-south accent that gives uncanny realism to each of the selections undertaken. His reading pace is neither slow nor fast and he conjures up many vivid, picturesque images for his listening audience.