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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...