Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

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

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

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

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.

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

As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up ...

Selections from the works of William Faulkner.