Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Marble Faun (1924)
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- These Thirteen (1931)
- Salmagundi and Miss Zilphia Gant (1932)
- Light in August (1932)
- A Green Bough (1933)
- Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- The Wild Palms (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses and Other Stories (1942)
- The Portable Faulkner (1946)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- Notes on a Horsethief (1950)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- Mirrors of Chartres Street (1954)
- The Faulkner Reader (1954)
- A Fable (1954)
- Big Woods (1955)
- The Town (1957)
- New Orleans Sketches (1958)
- Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
- Index
Notes on a Horsethief (1950)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Marble Faun (1924)
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- These Thirteen (1931)
- Salmagundi and Miss Zilphia Gant (1932)
- Light in August (1932)
- A Green Bough (1933)
- Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- The Wild Palms (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses and Other Stories (1942)
- The Portable Faulkner (1946)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- Notes on a Horsethief (1950)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- Mirrors of Chartres Street (1954)
- The Faulkner Reader (1954)
- A Fable (1954)
- Big Woods (1955)
- The Town (1957)
- New Orleans Sketches (1958)
- Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
- Index
Summary
Richard Walser. “Faulkner Story of Good and Evil.” Raleigh News and Observer, February 11, 1951, Section IV, p. 5.
This is the first book to come from the pen of America's leading writer of fiction since his elevation some months ago to the ranks of Nobel Prize winners. Whether it is a long short story or a brief novel, one must take his choice. Faulkner has a habit of denying the usual classifications. At any rate, it is a postscript to his 1948 novel, Intruder in the Dust–a story which put clearly upon the conscience of white Southerners the psychological requisites to the solution of their racial problem as well as one which defined the psychological posture of the Southern Negro regarding this problem. The conscience has not changed in Faulkner's story, though the fictional situation has somewhat altered.
It is April, 1914. A famous imported racehorse, with a leg irreparably injured in a train wreck, is stolen by his English groom, and with the aid of a Negro preacher-stableman is nursed and cared for sufficiently for him to win races in out-of-the-way county seats and country fairs, always eluding the pursuing detectives, police, insurance adjusters, and others interested in his apprehension. The chase ends in a small Missouri town, where the escape of the English groom is effectuated as a tribute from the community to the groom's efforts to have the horse serve his natural purpose–racing–instead of imprisoning him in a veterinarian's ward to provide procreation for future thoroughbreds. The community also saves the Negro from the law as a reward for his role in the escapades–thus reversing the basic situation in Intruder in the Dust.
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- William FaulknerThe Contemporary Reviews, pp. 321 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995