As I Lay Dying [electronic resource]
Faulkner, William2006
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South, one of literature’s great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark. Along with a new Foreword by E. L. Doctorow, this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.
Main title:
As I Lay Dying [electronic resource] / William Faulkner
Author:
Faulkner, William, AuthorVarious, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Books on Tape, 2006
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 4-5
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.
Awards:
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded Author (Nobel Foundation)
ISBN:
9780739345382
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2835739
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