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First published in 1936, "Absalom, Absalom!" is Faulkner's ninth novel and one of his most admired. It is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Although his grand design is ultimately destroyed by his own sons, a century later the figure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Quentin Compson, who is obsessed with his family legacy and that of the Old South. "Faulkn...

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As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring 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 by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the tw...

An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence.

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Colección: Alfaguara juvenil. Serie morada.

«La vida no es más que una sombra... Una historia narrada por un necio, llena de ruido y furia, que nada significa.» Macbeth, ShakespeareEl ruido y la furia es una obra maestra de la literatura. Relata la degeneración progresiva de la familia Compson, sus secretos y las relaciones de amor y odio que la sostienen y la destruyen.Por primera vez, William Faulkner introduce el monólogo interior y revela los diferentes puntos de vista de sus person...

En Luz de agosto aparecen retratados algunos de los personajes más memorables de Faulkner: la cándida e intrépida Lena Grove en busca del padre de su hijo, el reverendo Gal Hightower -atormentado por constante visiones de soldados de caballería confederados- y Joe Christmas, un misterioso vagabundo consumido por los orígenes raciales de sus antepasados.Faulkner, además de haber sido el innovador de una forma de narrar que ha influido poderosam...

Entre lo más representativo de la impresionante obra de Faulkner se encuentran las novelas que se conocen bajo el nombre de «ciclo de Yoknapatawpha», desarrolladas a modo de fábula sobre la vida en el sur de los Estados Unidos y sobre el destino humano en cualquier parte del mundo.El villorrio -primera parte de la «Trilogía de los Snopes», a la que también pertenecen La ciudad y La mansión- comienza con la llegada de diversos miembros de una f...

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Faulkner's early fictional forays that foreshadow a Nobel laureate in the making

First published in the US in the 1930s, these classics of American fiction have been rejacketed. Faulkner is "one of the great figures of international modernist experiment" Malcolm Bradbury.

I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." -William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members-including Addie herse...

A delightful surprise, Faulkner wrote his second novel "for the sake of writing because it was fun.

Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner's imagination. "The Hamlet, "the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called "one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon." It recou...

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home, " says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving collection of nearly 150 letters. Written during his twenties, these letters describe Faulkner's first encounters with the North ("...I made my first subway trip yesterday. The experience showed me that we are not descended from monkeys, as some s...