William Faulkner
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying - Sanctuary - Light in August - Pylon.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"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 century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected...
8) The town
Author
Series
Snopes Family volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"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."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Faulkner's classic story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness, is now available...
12) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.