An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help...

In this feverishly beautiful novel-originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem-William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a...

"The Hamlet" ist der erste Roman in William Faulkners berühmter "Snopes-Trilogie". Der 1940 veröffentlichte Roman spielt im fiktiven Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi und untersucht den Aufstieg der Snopes-Familie, einer skrupellosen...

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After...

"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...

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'Brilliant and compelling-one is constrained to follow to the end' SpectatorThe death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August,...

Die reiche und verwöhnte Studentin Temple Drake gerät nach einem Autounfall mit ihrem betrunkenen Galan in die Hände von Schwarzbrennern und Gangstern. William Faulkner gelingt es, die Faszination des Bösen mit unheimlicher...

Lucius »Loosh« Priest erzählt von seinen jugendlichen Abenteuern, die er mit dem mutigen, aber völlig unzuverlässigen Boon Hogganbeck, dem schlauen schwarzen Kutscher Ned Hogganbeck und der gütigen Prostituierten Miss Corrie erlebt hat....

This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely...

"Requiem for a Nun" von William Faulkner ist eine Fortsetzung seines früheren Romans "Sanctuary". Die Geschichte spielt in der fiktiven Stadt Jefferson in Mississippi und konzentriert sich auf die Protagonistin Temple Drake, die nun...