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A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August

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A boxed, paperback collection of some of Faulkner's most well know & beloved novels.

1105 pages, Paperback

First published June 3,2005

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Format
1105 pages, Paperback
Published
June 3, 2005 by Vintage
ISBN
9780307275325
ASIN
0307275329
Language
English

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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".

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Riversofbeauty
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April 17,2025
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I probably should say I loved these American classics, but the truth is that I hated them. My apologies to Faulkner, but the first two in this trilogy (As I Lay Dying & The Sound and the Fury) were so out there and boring that I couldn't force myself to read the last one.
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BuchBehandlung
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April 17,2025
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I only read The Sound and the Fury and it made me feel absolutely stupid. I thought, this is a classic that I totally don't understand why it's so wonderful. It was awfully sad and was a slow read for me. Maybe someday I'll read the other books too.
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RezeKit
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April 17,2025
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The Sound and the Fury - excellent book and in my top 3.
Light in August - OK book - enjoyed but not my favorite faulkner.
As I lay Dying - Not that great. Unimpressed
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ZephyrEdge
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April 17,2025
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I love Faulkner. I love The Sound and the Fury. It is probably one of my all time favorite books to read. It takes a few reads to really to be able to appreciate this novel, but I feel like it is a must read for everyone!
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Garebear3599
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April 17,2025
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This is by far my favorite collection by William Faulkner contained in a cover. Faulkner is my favorite Mississippi writer (besides myself LOL). Would recommend this collection to anyone.
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