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As I Lay Dying
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South, one of literature’s great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.
Along with a new Foreword by E. L. Doctorow, this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.
Critic Reviews
"For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country."--Robert Penn Warren
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- Jonathon
- 02-04-2018
A struggle...
Struggled to finish. An impressive concept by Faulkner but struggled with the many and varied characters and their specific language and thought processes.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-04-2023
Finally finished it
I was supposed to read this at uni, back in the day. The concept of different voices and points of view was probably revolutionary in its time. It has many perspectives that are unheard (proto-woke) but ordinary people aren’t very profound. The author captures the voices of rural America… The reading is too good, poor people don’t actually talk that way, they are poor and uneducated; they are not professional actors doing a side job.
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