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A Fable
In 1918, after four long years of brutal warfare, a mysterious, a corporal convinces his French battalion to simply stop fighting; this simple plea spreads across the entire front until the military and political leaders, both French and German, are frantic to get the fighting going again, so as not to lose the very justifications for their positions of authority. Corporal Stephan is sick of the fighting. Sick of the needless deaths and arbitrary sufferi...
Absalom, Absalom!
Thomas Sutpen rode out of a mysterious past into Jefferson, Mississippi in 1833. He purchased 100 acres, set about clearing the land and building a mansion, and proceeded with a plan for order and security that would end in the ruination of many lives. Secrets, betrayals, and violence would be the undoing of almost everyone involved. But the truth is inaccessible to almost everyone involved because it must be pieced together from partial knowledge by sev...
As I Lay Dying
“As I Lay Dying” is a tale told by a multitude of narrators all working to bury Addie Bundren, the now dead matriarch of the Bundren family. Anse, Darl, Tull, Cash, Jewel, Dewey Dell, Vardaman and a cast of minor characters all navigate through a series of misfortunes to carry out Addie's final wish: to be carried back to her home town of Jefferson, Mississippi. On the way to Jefferson, Addie's body decomposes in the extraordinarily hot weather and...
Intruder in the Dust
When Lucas Beauchamp, a dignified elderly black man, is wrongly accused of murdering a white man, he refuses to defend himself from what he sees as a malicious and racist society and it is up to 16-year-old Chick Mallison to find some way to save him. Chick Mallison's first encounter with Lucas Beauchamp is far from any courthouse. Out hunting with some friends, Chick falls into an icy creek and is only saved by Lucas Beauchamp, who happens to live nearb...

Faulkner booklist

Light in August
The novel begins with Lena Grove, a pregnant teenager who has hitched her way all the way to Jefferson, seeking the child's father, Lucas Burch. Arriving at his supposed work, she meets Byron Bunch, another outcast of society, who realizes that the man Lena is looking for is actually known as Joe Brown, the town drunk and bootlegger. Joe Brown is a dumb man who came to power by partnering with the newcomer, Joe Christmas. Joe Christmas is an intellige...
Sanctuary
A small town lawyer passing through on his way to his sister's home as he leaves his wife and the stepdaughter he's lusting after stumbles across a rundown homestead where liquor is made. A young woman and her boyfriend wreck their car in the same area, and end up at the house also. The man gets drunk and the girl gets molested, despite the best efforts of a former prostitute who lives there. A man ends up dead, the girl is deserted by her companion a...
Sartoris
A story of a deep South family, Sartoris,proud, aristocratic and foolhardy. Novel of ante-bellum South, and how Southern ideals have crippled the present. Excellent descriptions of Black servants and their lives of the times....
The Hamlet
In this, the first of Faulkner's "Snopes" trilogy, which follows the rise of the Snopes family in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Flem Snopes arrives in the small hamlet of Frenchman's Bend and begins his hard climb for position and power that will soon mark his family's long and influential place in the county. When we first meet Flem, he has just arrived in Frenchman's Bend with his mother, sister, and father, Abner Snopes. He is little mo...
The Mansion
In this, the final book in Faulkner's "Snopes" trilogy, we witness the betrayal and death of Flem Snopes, which brings with it a growing sense that the Snopes, now firmly ensconced in Yoknapatawpha County, might just be their own worst enemies. Flem conquered the rural populism of Frenchman's Bend. He conquered the urban industrialism of Jefferson. He now has his claws in just about every facet of Yoknapatawpha's economic and social life. But there are t...
The Reivers
Set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County in the early 1900s, THE REIVERS tells the story of a young, wealthy Southern boy who, during a simple ride to Memphis in his grandfather's "borrowed" car, gets caught up in a series of escalating schemes and vices that expose the harsh realities of a world the boy has long been shielded from. Eleven year old Lucius Priest is obsessed with his grandfather's car. It is the first and only car in the entirety ...

William Faulkner list of books

The Sound and the Fury
One of William Faulkner's greatest works. This story follows a rich white family in rural Mississippi. Jason is the jerk of the family, only concerned with money, Caddy is is his sister who embarrasses the family by running off with a Yankee who leaves her with a kid, their brother, who commits suicide after going to college, and Benji, who is retarded. ...
The Town
The second book in Faulkner's "Snopes" trilogy, continuing after the events of THE HAMLET, Flem Snopes, his ambitions growing with his influence, leaves Frenchman's Bend behind for the more fruitful opportunities in the larger town of nearby Jefferson, the center of Yoknapatawhpha County; here, after his success navigating the hierarchies of a country hamlet, Flem proves himself equally capable of taking advantage of the industrial atmosphere of a growin...
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished unfolds over the course of 11 years, starting in Mississippi during the middle of the Civil War. Bayard Sartoris is the son of a wealthy plantation family. One day playing with one of the slaves, his friend Ringo, another slave named Loosh tells the two boys that Union soldiers are in Mississippi. The boy's story is confirmed when Bayard's father comes home with the news that Vicksburg was lost to the Union. The boys keep an eye on Loosh...