From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
Here, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner's famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author's incomparable 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 recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman's Bend-and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the central novel, records Flem's ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics."
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
Here, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner's famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author's incomparable 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 recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman's Bend-and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the central novel, records Flem's ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics."
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on
September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a
collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier’s Pay,
in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!,
As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury,
Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also
received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954)
and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was
Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July
6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
George Garrett spent nearly twenty years writing,
assembling, researching, changing forms of the work that has
triumphantly come to be Death of the Fox. He is the author of
previous novels, poetry, and short stories. His work in all these
forms has evoked serious and favorable critical reception.
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