Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears that her husband will murder her because she is pregnant with a white-man’s child.
Light in August
From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality.
"As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and...
Recounts the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother, through the eyes of each of the family members.
From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit.
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
Je lui avais dit de ne pas amener ce cheval, par respect pour sa défunte mère, parce que ça n'a pas bonne façon de le voir caracoler ainsi sur ce sacré cheval de cirque, alors qu'elle voulait que nous soyons tous avec elle dans la ...
Lumière d'août
福克纳随笔
Ben shu shou lu le wei lian Fu ke na chuang zuo de bu fen sui bi,Yan shuo ci,Xu yan,Shu ping,Gong kai xin.
Not a fragment, not quite a finished work, Father Abraham is the brilliant beginning of a novel which William Faulkner tried repeatedly to write, for a period of almost a decade and a half, during the earlier part of his career—the novel ...
Seven interrelated stories chronicle the lives of the McCaslin family's white and Black descendents
One complete novel and excerpts from six others, three novellas, eight short stories, and Faulkner's Nobel Prize address comprise this reader
A Green Bough
Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933). “These are primarily the ...
Set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, As I Lay Dying tells the story of the dysfunctional Bundren family as they set out to fulfill Addie Bundren’s dying wish.
This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for...
No puedo meter la pata, se dijo. Sólo existía algo cierto, sin otra alternativa: debía hacerlo. Creía que los dos le reconocerían a primera vista, mientras que él había de confiar en ser el primero en verla, ...