{"title":"Library Of America Complete Novels Of William Faulkner","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the heart of the American South with William Faulkner's complete novels, presented by the Library of America. Experience his groundbreaking modernist style and explore themes of family, history, and social change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"william-faulkner-novels-1930-1935-loa-25-book-william-faulkner-9780940450264","title":"William Faulkner Novels 1930-1935 (LOA #25)","description":"Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America's finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e(1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi clan, as the family marches her body through fire and flood to its grave in town.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e(1931) is a novel of sex and social class, of collapsed gentility and amoral justice, that moves from the back roads of Mississippi and the fleshpots of Memphis to the courthouse of Jefferson and the appalling spectacle of popular vengeance. 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The guileless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; the disgraced minister Gail Hightower, who dreams of Confederate cavalry charges; Byron Bunch, who thought working Saturdays would keep a man out of trouble, and the desperate, enigmatic Joe Christmas, consumed by his mixed ancestry-all find their lives entangled in the inexorable succession of love, birth, and death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pylon\u003c\/i\u003e(1935), a tale of barnstorming aviators in the carnival atmosphere of an air show in a southern city, examines the bonds of desire and loyalty among three men and a woman, all characters without a past. Dramatizing what, in accepting his Nobel Prize, Faulkner called \"the human heart in conflict with itself,\" it illustrates how he became one of the great humanists of twentieth-century literature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Library of America edition of Faulkner's work publishes, for the first time, new, corrected texts of these four works. Manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are free of the changes introduced by the original editors and that are faithful to Faulkner's intentions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. 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This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these four novels we can track Faulkner's extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and masters the mode and matter of his greatest works. \u003ci\u003eSoldiers' Pay\u003c\/i\u003e (1926) expresses the disillusionment provoked by World War I through its account of the postwar experiences of homecoming soldiers, including a severely wounded R.A.F. pilot, in a style of restless experimentation. In \u003ci\u003eMosquitoes\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), a raucous satire of artistic poseurs, many of them modeled after acquaintances of Faulkner in New Orleans, he continues to try out a range of stylistic approaches as he chronicles an ill-fated cruise on Lake Pontchartrain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the sprawling \u003ci\u003eFlags in the Dust\u003c\/i\u003e (published in truncated form in 1929 as \u003ci\u003eSartoris\u003c\/i\u003e), Faulkner began his exploration of the mythical region of Mississippi that was to provide the setting for most of his subsequent fiction. Drawing on family history from the Civil War and after, and establishing many characters who recur in his later books, \u003ci\u003eFlags in the Dust\u003c\/i\u003e marks the crucial turning point in Faulkner's evolution as a novelist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume concludes with Faulkner's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). 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