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En av 1900-talets stora nydanande romanerDen förståndshandikappade Benjy har inget språk, han kan bara uttrycka sig genom att vråla. Saknaden efter systern Caddie, den rebelliska, …

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its …

En av 1900-talets största & mest nydanande romanerMedan jag låg och dog [1930] är William Faulkners kanske mest koncentrerade roman: en kaotisk, sårig och ofta dråplig färd genom …

Harold Blooms introduktion till William Faulkners Medan jag låg och dog. »Underbar. Harold Bloom är en av de stora pedagogerna. Han skriver med passion om författarna han älskar …

A Southern family teeters on the edge of collapse in the decades following the Civil War. Through the shifting minds of three brothers-one cognitively disabled, one embittered and …

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulknerâ??s elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the …

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of …

“With the Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom!, Susan Scott Parrish has set a new standard for studying Faulkner’s masterwork that will benefit both students and …

William Faulkner's short story "The Bear" was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The piece--considered one of the best short stories of the …

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 …

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the …

This is a collection of the very best of William Faulkner’s short stories. Included are classics of short-form fiction such as ‘A Bear Hunt’, ‘A Rose for Emily’, ‘Two Soldiers’ and …

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided …

William Faulkner’s provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth …

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and …

First published in 1936, "Absalom, Absalom " is Faulkner's ninth novel and one of his most admired. It is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to …

'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the …