As I Lay Dying (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140019405 ISBN 13: 9780140019407

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1974

Synopsis

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\n\nFrom the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories\n\nOne of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. 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. Told through multiple voices, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark. Along with a new Foreword by E. L. Doctorow, this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n\nFrom Amazon\n\nFaulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About this title

Review:

For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country --Robert Penn Warren

Book Description:

'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0140019405
• ISBN 13: 9780140019407
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208