Snopes trilogy
Novels by William Faulkner
The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels written by William Faulkner regarding the Snopes family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.[1] It consists of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion.[1] It was begun in 1940 and completed in 1959.[2]
References
- ^ a b John B. Padgett. "A Faulkner Glossary: S", William Faulkner on the Web, October 9, 2000. Retrieved on May 7, 2008. "Snopes: One of the most pernicious families in all of Faulkner.... the seemingly endless number of Snopes who parade through Faulkner’s fiction, most especially in the Snopes trilogy (the novels The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion)...."
- ^ From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901–1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969. Reprinted at "William Faulkner: Biography", Nobel Foundation, 1949. Retrieved May 7, 2008. "In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be followed by two volumes, The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the community."
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- Bibliography
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris / Flags in the Dust (1929 / 1973)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- Light in August (1932)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses (1942)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- A Fable (1954)
- The Town (1957)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
collections
- These 13 (1931)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- "Landing in Luck" (1919)
- "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
- "Red Leaves" (1930)
- "Dry September" (1931)
- "Spotted Horses" (1931)
- "That Evening Sun" (1931)
- "Mountain Victory" (1932)
- "Barn Burning" (1939)
- "The Tall Men" (1941)
- "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
- Flesh (1932)
- Today We Live (1933)
- Submarine Patrol (1938)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1945)
- The Wishing Tree (1927)
- William Clark Falkner (great-grandfather)
- Rowan Oak home
- Papers and manuscripts
- William Faulkner Foundation
- Yoknapatawpha County
- Compson family
- Louis Grenier
- Ikkemotubbe
- Gavin Stevens
- Thomas Sutpen
- Snopes trilogy
- Southern Renaissance
- Faux Faulkner contest
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Fiction, Film, and Faulkner
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