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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: very good
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
Light in August by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable tha ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics/Literature
'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
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Category: Classics/Literature
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
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