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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Category: Classics
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraor ...Show more
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
The story of a black who is unjustly charged with murder.
Light in August by William Faulkner
Category: Fiction
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorab ...Show more
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausi ...Show more
Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done."
Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Category: Classics
Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress' baby. The lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done.
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.
The Mansion by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
"The Mansion" completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes "The Hamlet" and "The Town." Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable po ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Category: Fiction
'There was another yellow butterfly, like one of the sunflecks had come loose' WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD HUGHES Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, The Sound and the Fury explores intense, passionate family relationships where there ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Category: Classics
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
The Unvanquished : The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.