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Una volta, alla domanda se leggesse romanzi gialli, Faulkner replicò sornione: «Quando sono buoni come I fratelli Karamazov». Al pari di Dostoevskij, amava infatti trasfigurare e usare ai suoi fini la struttura del poliziesco - quasi che la letteratura non fosse altro che un polveroso tribunale, nascosto tra le quinte del profondo Sud americano. Questo romanzo del 1948 ne è l'ennesima riprova. Nella mitica contea d...

Gavin Stevens, the wise student of crime and folkways of Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County, plays the major role in these six stories of violence.

Soldiers¿ Pay is William Faulkner¿s first published novel. It begins with a train journey on which two American soldiers, Joe Gilligan and Julian Lowe, are returning from the First World War. They meet a scarred, lethargic, and withdrawn fighter pilot, Donald Mahon, who was presumed dead by his family. The novel continues to focus on Mahon and his slow deterioration, and the various romantic complications that arise upon his return home. Faulk...

The Reivers is a picaresque about three improbable automobile thieves from rural Mississippi, and it is one of Faulkner's humorous classics. Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, persuades eleven-year-old Lucius Priest to take his grandfather's automobile and go to Memphis. Ned McCaslin, the Priests' black coachman, stows away, and the three of them embark on a heroic quest for which they are entirely unprepared, culminating at Miss ...

Main Street, " the classic novel by Sinclair Lewis, isn't just a SINCLAIR LEWIS book - it's a one-way ticket to Gopher Prairie, a town so quintessentially Midwestern that even the cornstalks have an opinion on proper decorum. Follow the adventures (or misadventures) of Carol Kennicott, a city girl with dreams bigger than her new husband's medical practice, as she takes on small- town life with the enthusiasm of a squirrel at a nut festival. B...

Explore the intricate tapestry of early 20th-century Europe through the eyes of Ford Madox Ford in 'Some Do Not...', the first volume of his acclaimed 'Parade's End' series. This masterfully written novel delves into the complexities of love, duty, and the inevitable change brought by the First World War. Set against a backdrop of tumultuous societal shifts, the story follows Christopher Tietjens, a man of principles caught in the crossfire o...

As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner is a haunting and profoundly introspective masterpiece that delves into the complex depths of the human psyche. Set in the impoverished and rural American South during the early 20th century, this novel follows the Bundren family as they embark on a harrowing journey to fulfill their deceased mother's final wish: to be buried in her hometown. As the family members navigate a treacherous landscape filled with...

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war.

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1949 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülünün sahibi William Faulknerin bugün yalniz Amerikan edebiyatinin degil, dünya edebiyatinin da basyapiti sayilan romanlari baslarda cok ses getirmemisti. Ancak 1931de Tapinakin yayimlanmasi, Faulknerin bir yandan ünlenmesine, kitaplarinin yeni baskilar yapip cok satmasina neden olurken bir yandan da tepki cekti ve Güneyin ruhunu kücük düsürdügü gerekcesiyle bazi sehirlerde toplatildi. Tapinakin bunca ilgi cekmesinin ned...

William Faulkner, kendine özgü anlatim teknikleriyle 20. yüzyil edebiyatini derinden etkilemis bir yazar. Önceleri bu yüzyilda Amerikada yasamis en büyük yazar olarak kabul edilirken, zaman icinde onu cagimizin en büyük romancisi sayanlarin sayisi artmaya baslamistir. Agustos Isiginda Faulkner, Amerikan toplumunda yasanan zenci sorunu, bireyin modern toplumdaki yalnizligi ve kimligini olusturmayan köksüz insanin drami gibi temalari dünya edebi...

Faulkner, ailesi de Amerikan Ic Savasinda yer almis bir yazar olarak, hem dogrudan hem göndermelerle bu savasa bircok yapitinda deginmistir. Yenilmeyenler yalniz Amerikan Ic Savasinin degil, belki de bütün savas edebiyatlarinin en ilginc yapitlarindan biridir. Faulkner savasi arka plana alarak, yasli bir kadin, yeniyetmelige yaklasan bir cocuk ve onun siyah köle arkadasinin basrolde oldugu bir cephe gerisi öyküsü kurar. Anlatiyi, savasa kendi ...

Mosquitoes tells the story of group of socialites who take a yacht trip on Lake Pontchartrain while delving into the nature of people and sexuality.

Library of America caps its six-volume edition of William Faulkner's works with a volume gathering of all the stories he collected in his lifetime, in corrected texts Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry" and wrote to an editor that "even to a collection of short stories, form, integration, is as important as to a novel--an entity of its own, single, set for one pitch, contrapuntal in integration, toward one en...

Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game for Faulkner's barbed wit in this engaging high-spirited novel which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. 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 fragment...

Rest in peace- or not? The death and burial of Addie Bundren is taken by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. But the task is much more difficult than anticipated. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckl...

The Reivers is a picaresque about three improbable automobile thieves from rural Mississippi, and it is one of Faulkner's humorous classics. Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, persuades eleven-year-old Lucius Priest to take his grandfather's automobile and go to Memphis. Ned McCaslin, the Priests' black coachman, stows away, and the three of them embark on a heroic quest for which they are entirely unprepared, culminating at Miss ...

The Unvanquished is set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the Sartoris family, who represent the best of the Old South's traditions with their code of personal responsibility and courage. The Unvanquished is divided into seven episodes that take place between 1862 and 1873. Some episodes are quickly followed by others, while others are separated by months or years. On the Sartoris property, Bayard Sartoris and ...

T. S. Eliot's and Sigmund Freud's works, as well as folklore, local tradition, and hardboiled detective fiction, shape this stunning novel about the nature of evil. Sanctuary is the dark, at times horrific, narrative of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake's kidnapping and subsequent introduction of her own brand of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is held captive. Sanctuary is a novel by William Faulkner about a lawyer named Horac...