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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling, " the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
5) The town
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Snopes Family volume 2
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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 postbellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is self-contained but gains resonance from being read with the other two. Flem Snope's ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, is rich in episodes of humor and profundity."--Page 4 of cover.
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Library of America volume 25
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Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
12) Sartoris
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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 ideals and abiding memory of the ante-bellum South have crippled the present.
13) Snopes
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These three full-length novels compose the Snopes trilogy. In "The Hamlet, " the cunning Flem Snopes is introduced with other members of his conniving family. Flem's dream is to marry Eula Varner and remake the small world of Frenchman's Bend as his own personal kingdom. In "The Town, " Flem sets his sights on the county seat of Yoknapatawpha County, Jefferson, in a ruthless bid for even more power. Finally, in "The Mansion, " Mink Snopes brings down...
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"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...
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Pilkington devotes a chapter to each one of the nine novels set in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. They are Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom Absalom!, The Unvanquished, The Hamlet and Go Down, Moses. He emphasizes the humanistic implications of Faulkner's thematic concerns and the complexities of his world.
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling, " the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues...