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William Faulkner
Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother’s coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi…
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Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness.
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Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches…
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A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to…
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner’s central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South…
The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America’s Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of…
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