Novels 1942-1954: Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust; Requiem for a Nun; A Fable (The Library of America, No. 73)

1115 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of four works by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist best known for Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust; Requiem for a Nun; A Fable. The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity—sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But, despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve—and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it.