6/2/2023 0 Comments Light in august first editionSanctuary (1931) is a novel of sex and social class, of collapsed gentility and amoral justice, that moves from the back roads of Mississippi and the fleshpots of Memphis to the courthouse of Jefferson and the appalling spectacle of popular vengeance. It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi clan, as the family marches her body through fire and flood to its grave in town. As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction. "Between 19, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America's finest writers of the twentieth century. Publisher's full dark red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and on black label on spine, printed endpapers, ribbon marker bound in.
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