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Aus der biblischen Geschichte von Absalom wird die Geschichte der Familie Sutpen in der Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Faulkner verfolgt sie über mehr als ein Jahrhundert. Thomas Sutpen, aus einer bettelarmen weißen Familie stammend, heiratet auf Haiti die reiche Eulalia Bon und taucht 1833 plötzlich mit einem Haufen schwarzer Sklaven in Jefferson, Mississipi auf, wo er Ländereien kauft, ein Herrenhaus errichtet, ein zweites Mal heiratet und gesellschaftliches Ansehen erwirbt. Er hat aus dieser Ehe zwei Kinder, Judith und Henry, aber er hat auch einen Sohn aus der ersten Ehe, Charles Bon, ein Studienfreund Henrys, der sich ahnungslos in Judith verliebt.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...

The Sound and The Fury is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century, the novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so relayed in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man...

Der Vater, das Rauhbein Abner Snope, ist ein Außenseiter, der sich mit jedem im Dorf anlegt und bei Streitereien auch vor Brandstiftung nicht zurückschreckt. Snopes zehnjähriger Sohn muss sich entscheiden: zwischen Gehorsam zum grausamen Vater und eigenem Rechtsempfinden, zwischen Loyalität zur Familie und Ausbruch in die Freiheit.

Mit sinnlicher Leidenschaft entrollt William Faulkner in diesem Klassiker drei Lebenswege in den Südstaaten der USA: Lena Grove zieht hochschwanger in die Fremde, auf der Suche nach ihrem Geliebten. Der Geistliche Gail Hightower verliert Amt und Familie und träumt sich in eine glorifizierte Vergangenheit. Und Joe Christmas, ein Adoptivkind, fürchtet, in seinen Adern fließe "Negerblut". Auf der Flucht vor sich selbst wird er zum Mörder.

An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities.

Zwölf der wichtigsten und berühmtesten Dramen und Komödien William Shakespeares (1564 - 1616) - ungekürzt gehört! In der Reihenfolge der Erstausgabe des "First Folio", der ersten Werkausgabe des Dichters, die 1623 erschien. Mit dabei: Der Sturm, Viel Lärm um nichts, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Wie es euch gefällt, Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Romeo und Julia, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, König Lear, Othello.

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...

From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless...

Liebe, Eifersucht und Tod, das Aufbegehren gegen das Schicksal und die Verzweiflung über die eigene Unzulänglichkeit...

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two...

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016. Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is consistently ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Set in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the book tells of the hapless and tormented Bundren family. Addie, the long-suffering matriarch, is lying on her deathbed, tended by her daughter, Dewey Dell. Outside, her son Cash is crafting the coffin she will soon need.

A deep American South novel about a black & white intertwined in a relationship living in one house with various goings-on Southern style.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation.

By no means prepared by birth, education, or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and re-energizing and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others, ostensibly his betters, yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverance and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination.

Spanning from the 1825 birth of Faulkner’s great-grandfather to Faulkner’s death 137 years later to the day, author and biographer Carl Rollyson presents for the first time a complete portrait of Faulkner’s life untethered from any one biographical or critical narrative. Presented as a chronology of events without comment, this book is accompanied by an extensive list of principal personages and is supported by extensive archival research and interviews.

The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his concern 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." This volume includes a new introduction to the trilogy by acclaimed novelist George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox and The Succession.