William Faulkner
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| Title | : | Snopes (The Snopes Trilogy #1-3) |
| Author | : | William Faulkner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1072 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 1994 by Modern Library (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics |
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Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner's imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called "one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon." It recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman's Bend - and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the second novel, records Flem's ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics."Present Books Concering Snopes (The Snopes Trilogy #1-3)
| Original Title: | Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion |
| ISBN: | 0679600922 (ISBN13: 9780679600923) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Snopes Trilogy #1-3 |
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Finished The Hamlet on July 26, 2006. I finished The Town on February 6, 2007. Completed The Mansion on February 23, 2007.I fully believe that Faulkner deserved the Nobel Prize simply for inventing the character of Flem Snopes. Not to mention Eck, Mink, I.O., Admiral Dewey, Montgomery Ward, and (last but not least) Wallstreet Panic Snopes. People who compare Cormac McCarthy to Faulkner have missed something very important: Faulkner wrote some of the funniest scenes in all of literature, even when the surrounding story was piercingly sad or grim.
Faulkner wrote this trilogy over a long period of time - decades, in fact. "The Hamlet" was written in the 1920s, with "The Town" and "The Mansion" completed much later, in the 1950s. I found "The Hamlet" to be more entertaining than the others, though the plot thickens and the characters deepen as the story goes on. But the enjoyment is not quite up to par in the later works, primarily because Faulkner developed a somewhat overwrought style of writing in his later years that detracts from,
Wal now, iffen I were ta tell ya jest sommat about this ere book, jest enuff so's you'd be wantin ter read it but not so much that ye wouldn' half ter read it, then I reckon about alls I could say is that it's this ere sorter soap oprey set up in the north of Mississippi runnin down inter Memphis a bit, durin the early part, or leastways the first half of it, of the 20th centery and that theys Snopes and dramy and reglar folks jest livin or tryin to and Snopes, and color and Snopes and tragedy
Man..what didn't I learn. This is a lesson in life, in the changes that took place in america in the 19th century. Lots of stories and asides, but I loved this book and it will definately need a second read through to realy appreciate it
Takes forever to read, but time well-spent. Now I'm inspired.
This book made me want to move to Yoknapatwa county. I don't know if that's spelled right. I don't care. Because Yoknapatwa county is the intentionally silly made up name county that surrounds Oxford, Mississippi where William Faulkner lived. It's a real place. I don't know how many of the characters are based on real people, but it sure feels like they are. You can actually research the history of the characters and the people who inspired them, because there are volumes and volumes written on
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