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As I Lay Dying

By William Faulkner

By William Faulkner

By William Faulkner

By William Faulkner

By William Faulkner
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By William Faulkner
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Paperback $15.95

Jan 30, 1991 | ISBN 9780679732259

Ebook $11.99

May 18, 2011 | ISBN 9780307792167

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Aug 16, 2005 | 411 Minutes

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    About As I Lay Dying

    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 the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. 

    “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying

    This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

    About As I Lay Dying

    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 the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. 

    “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying

    This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

    About As I Lay Dying

    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.

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    About William Faulkner

    William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in… More about William Faulkner

    About William Faulkner

    William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in… More about William Faulkner

    About William Faulkner

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 30, 1991 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679732259

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 18, 2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307792167

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 16, 2005 | 411 Minutes | ISBN 9780739325377
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    “He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.” —Ralph Ellison
     
    “No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.” —Eudora Welty

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