William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The

William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (Library of America)
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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 masterpieceÂ Absalom, Absalom!Â (1936), Quentin Compson descends into a vortex of images, voices, passions, and doomed desires as he and his Harvard roommate re-create the story of Thomas Sutpen and the insane ambitions, romantic hopes, and distortions of honor and conscience that trap Sutpen and those around him, until their grief and pride and fate become the inescapable and unbearable legacy of a past that is not dead and not even past.

In seven episodes,Â The UnvanquishedÂ (1938) recounts the ordeals and triumphs of the Sartoris family during and after the Civil War as seen through the maturing consciousness of young Bayard Sartoris. The indomitable Granny Millard, the honor-driven patriarch Colonel Sartoris, the quick-witted and inventive Ringo, the ferociously heroic Drusilla, and the scheming, mendacious Ab Snopes embody the inheritance that Bayard must reconcile with a new, but diminished, South.

If I Forget Thee, JerusalemÂ (published in 1939 asÂ The Wild Palms) tells of desperate lovers fleeing convention and of a convict escaping the chaos of passion. In â€œThe Wild Palms,â€ an emotional and geographic odyssey ends in a Mississippi coastal town. In counterpoint, â€œOld Manâ€ recounts the adventures of an inarticulate â€œtall convictâ€ swept to freedom by a raging Mississippi flood, but who then fights to return to his simple prison life.

InÂ The HamletÂ (1940), the first book of the great Snopes family trilogy, the outrageous scheming energy of Flem Snopes and his relatives is vividly and hilariously juxtaposed with the fragile communal customs of Frenchmanâ€™s Bend. Here are Ike Snopes, in love with a cow, the sexual adventures of Eula Varner Snopes, and the wild saturnalia of the spotted horses auction, a comic masterpiece.

The Library of America edition of Faulknerâ€™s work publishes for the first time new, corrected texts ofÂ The Unvanquished,Â If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, andÂ The Hamlet. (The corrected text ofÂ Absalom, Absalom!Â was published by Random House in 1986.) Manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are faithful to Faulknerâ€™s intentions and free of the changes introduced by subsequent editors.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780940450554
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1990-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780940450554

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780940450554
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1990-06-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780940450554

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

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