William Faulkner
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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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"Depicting the gradual disintegration of the aristocratic Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centeredness. It features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their Black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed...
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English
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A landmark in American fiction, Light in August published in 1932, explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas-a man doomed, deracinated and alone-wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is, pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and...
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
William Faulkner is one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, yet success was elusive when he published his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, in 1926. Capturing the post–World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil, Faulkner explores the war's emotional impact on three weary veterans and their Southern hometown in Georgia. Experimental narrative techniques blended with literary modernism set the foundation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1957
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. 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. Narrated in turn by each of the family members-including Addie...
5) Mosquitoes
Author
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 19.6 cm
Language
English
Description
This Nobel Prize–winning author's satirical Southern novel is "full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen" (Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune).
If ever there was a William Faulkner novel that could be called a portrait of the artist as a young man, Mosquitoes is that book. Set on a yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain, Faulkner's second novel introduces his readers to the artistic community of...
6) Sartoris
Author
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1929 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, now public domain in the US and Canada, William Faulkner's ''Sartoris'' portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. It also deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The novel begins with the return of young Bayard Sartoris from the First World War. Bayard and his twin brother...
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Series
Lexile measure
1570L
Language
English
Description
Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who comes to the South in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.”
8) Sanctuary
Author
Language
English
Description
Southern story of cruelty and perversion, about a young college girl who falls under the spell of a gangster bootlegger. Precedes "Requiem for a Nun."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 25
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
1,034 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English