As I Lay Dying
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As I Lay Dying

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As I Lay Dying

About this book

As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner's fifth novel, on which he began to work at the end of October 1929, just a few weeks after the publication of The Sound and the Fury . At that time Faulkner had taken a job at the University of Mississippi power plant and wrote the novel during his night shifts there, over a period of only forty-seven days. Though not initially a bestseller, the book was well received by critics. It has since come to be viewed as a cornerstone of both his oeuvre and American modernism, and is consistently listed as one of the best novels of the 20th century. According to the critic Julia K. W. Baker, As I Lay Dying is a companion piece but also "in construction and technique, an advance beyond" The Sound and the Fury . Both novels concern dysfunctional families in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. The title of the novel is again a literary allusion, this time to a speech of the ghost of Agamemnon in Book XI of Homer's Odyssey . Through fifty-nine interior monologues delivered by fifteen narrators, As I Lay Dying recounts the death of a mother of five, Addie Bundren, and the journey of her husband and children as they convey her coffin to her hometown. Apart from death, the novel's themes include religion, infidelity, and family secrets. William Faulkner (died 1962) was a significant literary figure of the 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, As I Lay Dying exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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Information

Publisher
Caelwick Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9782941318697
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Darl
  7. Cora
  8. Darl
  9. Jewel
  10. Darl
  11. Cora
  12. Dewey Dell
  13. Tull
  14. Anse
  15. Darl
  16. Peabody
  17. Darl
  18. Vardaman
  19. Dewey Dell
  20. Vardaman
  21. Tull
  22. Darl
  23. Cash
  24. Vardaman
  25. Tull
  26. Darl
  27. Cash
  28. Darl
  29. Vardaman
  30. Darl
  31. Anse
  32. Darl
  33. Anse
  34. Samson
  35. Dewey Dell
  36. Tull
  37. Darl
  38. Tull
  39. Darl
  40. Vardaman
  41. Tull
  42. Darl
  43. Cash
  44. Cora
  45. Addie
  46. Whitfield
  47. Darl
  48. Armstid
  49. Vardaman
  50. Moseley
  51. Darl
  52. Vardaman
  53. Darl
  54. Vardaman
  55. Darl
  56. Vardaman
  57. Darl
  58. Cash
  59. Peabody
  60. Macgowan
  61. Vardaman
  62. Darl
  63. Dewey Dell
  64. Cash

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