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

„Barn Burning“ von William Faulkner ist eine Kurzgeschichte, die sich mit den Themen Gerechtigkeit, Loyalität und sozialer Konflikt auseinandersetzt. Die Handlung dreht sich um den jungen Sarty Snopes, der in einer armen Farmerfamilie im...

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...

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a...

Dieser Roman erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Compson über drei Jahrzehnte, beginnend mit Benjy, dem geistig behinderten Sohn des Hauses. Er kennt kein Gestern, Heute und Morgen, ist so auf ewig in der Gegenwart gefangen. Für Quentin,...

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey,...

In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. von Faulkner, William

A towering, intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one...