Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.

The autobiography of the fiction writer Eudora Welty whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

"--John Lewis, Member of Congress, 5th District, Georgia "This wonderfully narrated book offers truths about the civil rights struggle of the 1960s often overlooked-the intensely moral and spiritual side of an effort that had an enormous ...

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Harriet's sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child's play: it is dark, adult, and all too menacing."--BOOK JACKET.

Selections from the works of William Faulkner.