William Faulkner

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...

A wounded veteran returns home from World War I to find the life he left behind dramatically changed.

In this Southern gothic classic by a Nobel Prize winner, the shadows of war drive a wedge between a wealthy Mississippi family and their dreams. At the end of the Civil War, Confederate Colonel John Sartoris brought the railroad to Jefferson, Mississippi, where he planted roots, grew a family, and became a legend . . . Decades later, the once prosperous Sartoris clan is experiencing a reversal of fortune. Two of Colonel John's great-grandsons-twins...

William Faulkner fue un narrador y poeta estadounidense, galardonado con el premio Nobel de literatura en 1949. Escribió novelas, relatos cortos, guiones cinematográficos, ensayos y una obra de teatro. Es principalmente conocido por sus narraciones situadas en el ficticio condado de Yoknapatawpha, basado en el condado de Lafayette, en Mississippi, donde él residió la mayor parte de su vida. Faulkner es considerado universalmente como uno de los...

Thomas Sutpen stammt aus einer armen weißen Familie, heiratet auf Haiti die reiche Eulalia Bon und taucht 1833 plötzlich mit einem Haufen schwarzer Sklaven in Jefferson auf, wo er ein Herrenhaus errichtet und ein zweites Mal heiratet. Er hat aus dieser Ehe zwei Kinder, Judith und Henry, aber er hat auch einen Sohn aus der ersten Ehe, Charles Bon, der sich ahnungslos in Judith verliebt. Nach Ende des Bürgerkriegs, der die Liebenden für eine Weile...

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 twentieth century. 

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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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.

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

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 self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.