A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi...

Brandstifter von Faulkner, William

The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader's guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey. Titles include: As I Lay Dying This novel is the harrowing account of the...

Benjamin Compson, schwachsinniger Sohn von Jason III und Caroline Compson, wird 33 Jahre alt. Er beschreibt, was er von seinem Geburtstag wahrnimmt und erinnert sich an bedeutende Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Familie. Am Beispiel der...

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." -William Faulkner These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a...

"Als ich im Sterben lag" ist ein Roman von William Faulkner, der die Geschichte der Familie Bundren erzählt. Die Matriarchin Addie Bundren liegt im Sterben und ihr letzter Wunsch ist es, auf dem Friedhof ihrer Heimatstadt Jefferson...

"Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If...

Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a...

"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters" von William Faulkner ist eine Sammlung von nicht-fiktionalen Schriften des renommierten amerikanischen Autors. Die Sammlung umfasst eine Vielzahl von Texten, die Einblicke in Faulkners Gedankenwelt und...

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...