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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) Barn burning
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1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of the son of a tenant farmer who must choose between his aversion to playing his father's accomplice in violent acts against their landowners and his desire to win his father's acceptance.
19) The Reivers
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Warm, humorous, poignant story about a boy's loss of innocence and a memoir and loving re-creation of turn-of-the-century Dixie.
Humorous story of a boy and his three-day journey into manhood, as he travels to town with the farm's hired hand.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Great Pharaoh orders architect Vashtar to build him the highest pyramid in the world as his tomb. 15 years have passed and his treasury is dwindling, so he marries Princess Nellifer, but she is as ruthless as she is beautiful.
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