As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a reissue published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on January 30, 1991. This edition features 288 pages and presents a harrowing account of the Bundren family’s journey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. The novel is notable for its innovative structure and style, narrated from multiple perspectives, including that of Addie herself, and it explores a range of moods from dark comedy to profound sorrow.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of family dynamics and emotional depth as the story unfolds through the voices of the Bundren family members. This influential work is recognized for its literary significance and is categorized under fiction, literary classics, and sagas. The edition reproduces the corrected text established in 1985 by Noel Polk, ensuring an authentic reading experience of Faulkner’s acclaimed narrative.
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A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying
This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.
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