Cliffsnotes As I Lay Dying (Cliffsnotes Literature) - Softcover

9780764587368: Cliffsnotes As I Lay Dying (Cliffsnotes Literature)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764587366 ISBN 13: 9780764587368

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and 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, it vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

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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