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267 pages ; 21 cm.
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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.
3) A fable
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489 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment.
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 324
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306 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Presents thirteen short stories written by William Faulkner between 1929 and 1945.
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xxxv, 650 pages : map ; 20 cm.
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English
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Presents self-contained sections from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, including such stories as "A Rose for Emily," "That Evening Sun," and "Old Man"; a Yoknapatawpha County map; a chronology of the Compson family; and Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize address.
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313 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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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...
18) William Faulkner
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viii, 269 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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William Faulkner is one of America's most highly regarded novelists. This volume of new critical essays examines The sound and the fury, Light in August, As I lay dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and other key works by this preeminent writer of the twentieth century.
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English
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers. Originally published...
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x, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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English
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In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate...
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