''These 13'' is a 1931 collection of
short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
written by
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...
, and dedicated to his first daughter, Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle. No longer in print, ''These 13'' is now a collector's item.
''These 13'', Faulkner's first release of short stories, contained the following stories:
*"Victory"
*"Ad Astra"
*"All the Dead Pilots"
*"Crevasse"
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Red Leaves"
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A Rose for Emily
"A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published on April 30, 1930, in an issue of '' The Forum''. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, in the equally fictional county of ...
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*"A Justice"
*"Hair"
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That Evening Sun
"That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection '' These 13'', which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slight ...
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Dry September"
*"Mistral"
*"Divorce in Naples"
*"Carcassonne"
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1931 short story collections
Short story collections by William Faulkner