As I Lay Dying: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
- ISBN-10
- 0393931382
- ISBN-13
- 9780393931389
- Series
- As I Lay Dying
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- William Faulkner
Description
"First published in 1930, As I Lay Dying has long been recognized not only as one of William Faulkner's greatest works, but also as the most accessible of his major novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 Corrected Text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations." "In addition to the text's essays and criticism, a chronology and a selected bibliography are also included." --Book Jacket.
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