These 13

---

title: "These 13" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1931-short-story-collections", "short-story-collections-by-william-faulkner"] topic_path: "general/1931-short-story-collections" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_13" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/These13_by_William_Faulkner.jpg" caption="First edition cover"] ::

These 13 is a 1931 collection of short stories written by William Faulkner, 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"
• "Red Leaves"
• "A Rose for Emily"
• "A Justice"
• "Hair"
• "That Evening Sun"
• "Dry September"
• "Mistral"
• "Divorce in Naples"
• "Carcassonne"

References

References

1. Faulkner, W.. (1931). "These 13: Stories". J. Cape & H. Smith.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::