William Faulkner
1) The Reivers
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priest's black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which thy are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss...
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 271
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English
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Faulkner's classic story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness, is now available...
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality.
Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate...
Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate...
6) Sanctuary
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English
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Southern story of cruelty and perversion, about a young college girl who falls under the spell of a gangster bootlegger.
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English
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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life. As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
13) Novels 1942-1954
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Library of America volume 73
Pub. Date
1994.
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ix, 1,115 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 48
Pub. Date
[1990]
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1,117 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Four novels set in the 1930's explore the tragic and comic aspects of the South.
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Pub. Date
[1946]
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532 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
Of the twenty books for which William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying are considered by critics and general readers most representative of his work. The unsparing chronicler of the South, Faulkner is far more than a regional novelist; he is the observer and critic of a doomed but tenacious civilization. His imaginary world is all of the South cherishing the relics of a lost age of glory....
17) The town
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Pub. Date
[1957]
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371 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and of profundity.
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Modern library volume 351
Pub. Date
[1948]
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247 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community.