William Faulkner
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This classic novel is a dramatic presentation of the decline of the once-aristocratic Compson family of Yoknapatawpha County, in northern Mississippi. Divided into four sections, the first is recounted from the viewpoint of Benjy Compson, a thirty-three year old man with mental retardation. The second segment is set eighteen years earlier than the other three and is told from the point of view of Quentin Compson, a Harvard-educated student who commits...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 378
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"Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfil her last wish - to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Narrated in turn by each of the family members - including Addie...
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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.
6) Sanctuary
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Southern story of cruelty and perversion, about a young college girl who falls under the spell of a gangster bootlegger. Precedes "Requiem for a Nun."
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 324
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14) A fable
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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.
16) The mansion
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Snopes volume 3
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Flem Snopes has become the most powerful man in post-bellum Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and consequently, bored with his life, but the return of his cousin, Mink Snopes, from prison brings added conflict to Flem's life, and while Mink seeks revenge against Flem, Gavin Stevens moves closer to Linda.
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"The complete text, published for the first time in 1973, of Faulkner's third novel, written when he was twenty-nine, which appeared, with his reluctant consent, in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris."--Page 4 of cover.
In 1919, young Bayard Sartoris returns to Yoknapatawpha from the war. But unlike his heroic Civil War great grandfather and great uncle, Sartoris' war experiences leave him aimless and bitter, a walking casualty of how the lost...
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