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"The Grave Intruder" is a "detective novel" written in the late period of Faulkner's creative career. It was first published in 1948. The novel tells the story of the murder of a son of a wealthy family in the town. Lucas, a black man, was suspected and imprisoned. Chike, a white boy who had been helped by Lucas, did not believe that he was the murderer. By chance, he, a friend and an old white lady got involved in the case. They found another body from the deceased's grave, providing strong evidence to rule out Lucas' suspicion. At the same time, Chike used the facts to convince his uncle, a lawyer with serious racist ideas, and helped Lucas clear his name. The novel exposes the problem of racial discrimination in the United States through such a case and reflects the author's attitude on the issue of racial conflicts and racial integration in the South. It is an important work that reflects Faulkner's thinking on racial issues.

This book contains all of Faulkner's mature articles, speeches, book reviews, prefaces, and letters intended for publication, many of which reflect his increased sense of responsibility as a public figure after winning the Nobel Prize. From them, we can get a glimpse of all aspects of Faulkner as an artist and as a human being. These pages show us what this intensely passionate, extraordinarily complex, and intensely private writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, while also allowing us to gain a closer understanding of both his person and his work.

"Go Down, Moses" is a novel written by William Faulkner in 1942. It consists of seven related parts. Each part is relatively independent but also integrated into a complete picture. The author examines the complex and changing relationship between whites and blacks, man and nature from multiple angles, and uses unique modern writing techniques to weave a novel with a compact structure, rich connotations and implications. "Go, Moses" was originally the title of a famous black spiritual song.

"Light in August" is a novel written by American writer and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, and it is also one of his masterpieces. Through the description of ten days of social life in Jefferson Town, the novel reveals the life of several main characters and their three-generation family history, embodies "the true emotions, love, sympathy, pride, compassion and sacrifice deep in the human soul from ancient times to the present", and shows the writer's attitude against racial and religious prejudice. The story is mainly divided into two clues. One is about Christmas, who was sent to an orphanage as a child. Because he was suspected of being a "mulatto", he lost his "identity" and suffered various abuses from society, which ultimately prompted him to kill the white lover he finally met and was executed by the white people. The other one tells the story of a rural girl named Lina who fell in love with her lover, was abandoned after becoming pregnant, and walked to the town of Jefferson to look for her lover. The work has great influence. Critic George O'Donnell once said: "Overall, "Light in August" is more mature than any other work written by Faulkner, has a broader vision, and is closer to finally and truly revealing human potential."

The members of the fallen landowner Compson family - the sensitive and desperate eldest son Quentin, the cold and cunning second son Jason, the mentally retarded youngest son Benjamin, and the family slave Dilcey, each use different perspectives to tell the same family tragedy around the fall of the second daughter Katie Compson, like the four movements of a symphony, using exquisite time and space structure to show a sinking American southern society.

"The Bear" is a novella written by American writer and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner in 1941. It is included in the novel "Go, Moses" and forms its core chapter. This book tells three hunting stories, using symbolic techniques to metaphor the erosion of nature by industrial civilization.

"As I Lay Dying" is one of the important novels of Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha Lineage", which made Faulkner famous in one fell swoop. The novel consists of fifty-nine stanzas of inner monologues. It tells from multiple perspectives the "suffering journey" of Bundren, a farmer in the southern United States, who led his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial in order to keep his promise to his wife. It is known as "the most outstanding beginning of an American novel in the 20th century."

"Absalom, Absalom!" "Absalom, Absalom!" Is the ninth novel by American writer William Faulkner. It is William Faulkner's most important, complex, profound and epic work. It tells the story of a family in the southern United States that experienced intense disintegration from about 1860 to 1910. It profoundly expresses the various conflicts between people and between people and themselves, and touches on many universal issues related to the human condition.

William Faulkner is one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature and winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. "Light in August" is one of Faulkner's masterpieces and occupies an important position in the "Yoknapatawpha lineage" created by the writer. The novel is famous for its multiple narrative perspectives and plot structure. This edition of "Light in August" is translated by Lan Renzhe, a famous translator and expert on Faulkner. The translation is plain, concise and elegant, and well conveys the literary grace of the original work.

"Go, Moses" is one of Faulkner's most famous works and an important part of the "Yoknapatawpha Lineage". McCaslin, the manor owner of the southern United States, had a daughter with a slave girl, and later gave birth to a son Tyrell with this daughter. Tyrell later married Tanney, a slave girl of another manor owner, Bushchamp, and their children all bear the surname Bushchamp. McCaslin's granddaughter married Edmonds. The whole book is about the complex relationship between the descendants of these three surnames. The most colorful character is McCaslin's grandson Isaac. He participated in bear hunting activities since he was a child under the leadership of black hunters. When he grew up, he saw through the abnormal relationship between white people and black slaves. He voluntarily gave up his family property and went to the town to make a living as a carpenter. The whole book consists of two novellas and five short stories. Each part is relatively independent and integrated into a complete picture.

This version of "As I Lay Dying" is designated and recommended by four well-known writers, Mai Jia, Su Tong, Alai, and Ma Jiahui, with an in-depth interpretation of the preface by writer Su Tong, winner of the Mao Dun Literary Award. "As I Lay Dying" is a famous work by Nobel Prize winner Faulkner. The novel is composed of fifty-nine stanzas of inner monologues. It tells the story from multiple perspectives of the "suffering journey" of Bundren, a farmer in the southern United States, who in order to keep his promise to his wife, led his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial. Despite all the stupidity, selfishness, and barbaric behavior of the family, in order to respect the feelings of their relatives, they overcame huge difficulties and obstacles and fulfilled their promise. The novel demonstrates Faulkner's superb creative skills and brings him international reputation. It is known as "the most outstanding beginning of an American novel in the 20th century."