Barn Burning, Red Leaves, That Evening Sun | Social Concerns
While no special reason exists for the grouping of these three William Faulkner stories, "Barn Burning," "The Evening Sun" and "Red Leaves," all of them are widely anthologized Yoknapatawpha stories written at the height of Faulkner's creative abilities. The stories also inspired several of Faulkner's novels, or at the very least chapters in them. "That Evening Sun," which was previously issued as "Never Done No Weeping When You Wanted to Laugh" and "That Evening Sun Go Down," provides an early look at the Compsons, characters that Faulkner developed more fully in his acclaimed The...
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