The Sound and the Fury (Hardcover Library Edition)

As I Lay Dying Is A 1930 Southern Gothic Novel By American Author William Faulkner. FaulknerS Fifth Novel, It Is Consistently Ranked Among The Best Novels Of 20ThCentury Literature. The Story Revolves Around A Grim Yet Darkly Humorous Pilgrimage, As Addie BundrenS Family Sets Out To Fulfil Her Last WishTo Be Buried In Her Native Jefferson, Mississippi, Far From The Miserable Backwater Surroundings Of Her Married Life. Narrated In Turn By Each Of The Family MembersIncluding Addie HerselfAs Well As Others, The Novel Ranges In Mood, From Dark Comedy To The Deepest Pathos. In 1998, The Modern Library Ranked As I Lay Dying 35Th On Its List Of The 100 Best EnglishLanguage Novels Of The 20Th Century. About Author: William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) Was An American Writer And Nobel Prize Laureate From Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner Wrote Novels, Short Stories, Screenplays, Poetry, Essays, And A Play. He Is Primarily Known For His Novels And Short Stories Set In The Fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Based On Lafayette County, Mississippi, Where He Spent Most Of His Life. His First Poem Was Published In The New Republic In 1919. His First Book Of Verse And Early Novels Followed, But His Major Work Began With The Publication Of The Sound And The Fury In 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light In August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) And The Wild Palms (1939) Are The Key Works Of His Great Creative Period Leading Up To Intruder In The Dust (1948). During The 1930S, He Worked In Hollywood On Film Scripts, Notably The Blue Lamp, CoWritten With Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner Was Awarded The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1949 And The Pulitzer Prize For The Reivers Just Before His Death In July 1962.