The Unvanquished (Vintage International) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679736522 ISBN 13: 9780679736523

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1991

Synopsis

The Sartoris family, who embody the antebellum ideal of Southern honor and its transformation through war, defeat, and Reconstruction, are the focal point of this outstanding novel.

About this title

About the Author:

William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South--particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels--that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post-Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.

Synopsis:

The son of a Southern colonel becomes involved in the family's struggle to maintain the old order during the Civil War era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679736522
• ISBN 13: 9780679736523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272