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...

"Die Freistatt" von William Faulkner, mit einem Vorwort von André Malraux, ist ein Roman, der sich mit den Themen Schuld, Sühne und menschlicher Abgründe auseinandersetzt. Der Roman spielt im Süden der Vereinigten Staaten und erzählt die...

'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,...

"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...

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...

"Go Down, Moses" ist eine Sammlung von sieben miteinander verbundenen Geschichten des amerikanischen Autors William Faulkner, die erstmals 1942 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Erzählungen sind lose miteinander verknüpft und drehen sich um das...

"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." -William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying As I Lay...

A Rose for Emily von Faulkner, William

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's...