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Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography; and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War.

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	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Michael Gorra (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 175,553 ratings — published 1929 — 1534 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As I Lay Dying (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner, Michael Gorra (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 159,238 ratings — published 1930 — 1420 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Anna Quindlen (Introduction), Michael Gorra (Afterword) 3.96 avg rating — 93,930 ratings — published 1905 — 5012 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portrait of a Lady: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Henry James, Michael Gorra (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 78,376 ratings — published 1881 — 2484 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Michael Gorra (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 61,542 ratings — published 1951 — 228 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guide by R.K. Narayan, Michael Gorra (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 9,939 ratings — published 1958 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass, Michael Gorra (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 1,677 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece 4.27 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War 4.34 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” (1953) describes a winter’s stay in an isolated Swiss hamlet called Leukerbad. I have known that essay almost as long as I’ve known Faulkner’s own work, and I never reread it without a sense of profound discomfort, an uneasiness with American life and my own cushioned place within it.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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“That’s how it is in Faulkner’s South: a land where the dead past walks, not was but is, and burning always in one’s mind.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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“For the history of our shared country, he argues, is the history of the way white people have tried both to recognize and to deny the humanity of their black neighbors.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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