Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner BOOK REVIEW/GIVEAWAY

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  • THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: 0307946754
    • ISBN: 0307946754
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” —William Faulkner These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the “cold practicality” of women against the boyish folly of... [Read More]

  • Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01N4VW75U
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • UPC: 880792745071
    • ASIN: 0375504524
    • ISBN: 0375504524
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom 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 StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, ori... [Read More]

  • The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

    • ASIN: 0679732241
    • ISBN: 0679732241
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 0940450550
    • ISBN: 0940450550
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future.In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Quentin Compson descends into a vor... [Read More]

  • As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: B004JHYRMW
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)

    • ASIN: 0307275329
    • ISBN: 0307275329
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.Titles include: As I Lay DyingThis novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by... [Read More]

  • Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text

    • ASIN: 0679732187
    • ISBN: 0679732187
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of ... [Read More]

  • Sanctuary: The Corrected Text

    • ASIN: 0679748148
    • ISBN: 9780679748144
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.... [Read More]

  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner

    • ASIN: 0679764038
    • ISBN: 0679764038
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    “I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book AwardForty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writ... [Read More]

  • These Truths: A History of the United States

    • ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family (Vintage International Book 2)

    • ASIN: B004JHYSIA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Knight's Gambit (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: 0307946797
    • ISBN: 9780307946799
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens’sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.

  • Read Everything Quote by William Faulkner, Engraved Wooden Bookmark with Tassel - Search B07WFXPKKM to See Personalized Version

    • ASIN: B079DYZCSL
    • Brand: Mitercraft
    • Manufacturer: Mitercraft, Inc.

    Handmade from the finest high grade hand-selected sustainably harvested un-stained hardwoods. This distinctive bookmark features beautiful natural grain cherry in the center, bordered along both sides by intricately accented inlays made from a variety of hardwood combinations including; walnut, maple, rosewood and other eco-friendly domestic and ex... [Read More]

  • The Reivers

    • ASIN: 0679741925
    • ISBN: 0679741925
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grandfather’s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests’ black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and... [Read More]

  • Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01M9I7CRC
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Hamlet

    • ASIN: 0679736530
    • ISBN: 9780679736530
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on th... [Read More]

  • Too Big To Fail

    • ASIN: B0089DWJ9K

  • The Collected Novels: Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice

    • ASIN: B00CLVBADM
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    Four novels—including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Award winner—by the #1 New York Times–bestselling master.  Lie Down in Darkness is William Styron’s stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family’s tragic spiral into destruction. Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American... [Read More]

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