These 13

''These 13'' is a landmark 1931 collection of 13 short stories written by American Nobel laureate William Faulkner. It was his very first short story collection, dedicated to his wife Estelle and his first daughter, Alabama, who tragically died just nine days after her birth.

The collection is divided into three distinct thematic sections, moving from the battlefields of World War I to his famous fictional Southern landscape:
"Victory"
"Ad Astra"
"All the Dead Pilots"
"Crevasse"
"Red Leaves"
"A Rose for Emily" (Faulkner's most famous and widely anthologized Southern Gothic story)
"A Justice"
"Hair"
"That Evening Sun"
"Dry September"
"Mistral"
"Divorce in Naples"
"Carcassonne"

Key themes include the shadow of war: the first section features characters shattered emotionally and physically by World War I. Several stories also introduce readers to his fictional Mississippi county, dealing with racial tensions, decay, and the inescapable weight of the past. The final section shifts focus toward European backdrops, exploring different psychological landscapes.