Bücher von William Faulkner

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world.

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a black butler.

"Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." -William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."

""Main Street,"" the classic novel by Sinclair Lewis, isn't just a SINCLAIR LEWISbook - it's a one-way ticket to Gopher Prairie, a town soquintessentially Midwestern that even the cornstalks have anopinion on proper decorum. Follow the adventures (ormisadventures) of Carol Kennicott, a city girl with dreams biggerthan her new husband's medical practice, as she takes on small-town life with the enthusiasm of a squirrel at a nut festival. Butbeware, Gopher Prairie isn't just any sleepy town; it's a placewhere the local gossip travels faster than light and conformity isthe favorite dish served at every potluck. Lewis's razor-sharp witcuts through the American heartland like a hot knife throughbutter, serving up a delightful satire that's as refreshing as a coldglass of lemonade on a hot July day. Buckle up, because ""MainStreet"" is about to take you on a rollicking ride through the highsand lows of trying to repaint a town that's perfectly content withits shades of beige.

""Explore the intricate tapestry of early 20th-century Europethrough the eyes of Ford Madox Ford in 'Some Do Not...', thefirst volume of his acclaimed 'Parade's End' series. Thismasterfully written novel delves into the complexities of love,duty, and the inevitable change brought by the First World War.Set against a backdrop of tumultuous societal shifts, the storyfollows Christopher Tietjens, a man of principles caught in thecrossfire of personal and political turmoil. Witness Tietjens'journey as he navigates the challenges of a changing world, tornbetween his traditional values and the new realities of themodern era. Ford's exquisite prose and deep understanding ofhuman nature make 'Some Do Not...' a timeless classic, offeringa poignant reflection on the clash between old and new. A must-read for lovers of historical fiction and those intrigued by thesubtleties of human relationships amidst great historicalupheavals.""

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war.

Soldiers¿ Pay is William Faulkner¿s first published novel. It begins with a train journey on which two American soldiers, Joe Gilligan and Julian Lowe, are returning from the First World War. They meet a scarred, lethargic, and withdrawn fighter pilot, Donald Mahon, who was presumed dead by his family. The novel continues to focus on Mahon and his slow deterioration, and the various romantic complications that arise upon his return home.Faulkner drew inspiration for this novel from his own experience of the First World War. In the spring of 1918, he moved from his hometown, Oxford, Mississippi, to Yale and worked as an accountant until meeting a Canadian Royal Air Force pilot who encouraged him to join the R.A.F. He then traveled to Toronto, pretended to be British (he affected a British accent and forged letters from British officers and a made-up Reverend), and joined the R.A.F. in the hopes of becoming a hero. But the war ended before he was able to complete his flight training, and, like Julian Lowe, he never witnessed actual combat. Upon returning to Mississippi, he began fabricating various heroic stories about his time in the air force (like narrowly surviving a plane crash with broken legs and metal plates under the skin), and proudly strode around Oxford in his uniform.Faulkner was encouraged to write Soldiers¿ Pay by his close friend and fellow writer Sherwood Anderson, whom Faulkner met in New Orleans. Anderson wrote in his Memoirs that he went ¿personally to Horace Liveright¿¿Soldiers¿ Pay was originally published by Boni & Liveright¿¿to plead for the book.¿Though the novel was a commercial failure at the time of its publication, Faulkner¿s subsequent fame has ensured its long-term success.

Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game for Faulkner's barbed wit in this engaging high-spirited novel which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.

One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, "were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn't last very long, which they didn't. . . . That they were outside the range of God, not only of respectability, of love, but of God too." In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction.

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Faulkner's first novel, Soldiers' Pay, is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran's homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers' return from war on the people¿particularly the women¿who were left behind. It was written during the summer of 1925, while he was working in New Orleans, that Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson and was encouraged by him to write a novel.Unlike his later books this post-war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart is set in Georgia, but some of Faulkner's feeling for the south and many of his character-types are already foreshadowed.

Als die Matriarchin Addie Bundren im Sterben lag, verlangte sie, in ihrer Heimatstadt Jefferson begraben zu werden. Der Leichenzug der >armen weißen

Lucius »Loosh« Priest erzählt von seinen jugendlichen Abenteuern, die er mit dem mutigen, aber völlig unzuverlässigen Boon Hogganbeck, dem schlauen schwarzen Kutscher Ned Hogganbeck und der gütigen Prostituierten Miss Corrie erlebt hat. Es geht unter anderem um ein gestohlenes Rennpferd und um ein Bordell, das mit einem Hotel verwechselt wird.

"The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work."

Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wishto be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Narrated in turn by each of the family membersincluding Addie herselfas well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.

The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation.

"A real contribution to the study of Faulkner's work." -Edmund WilsonA Penguin ClassicIn prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The Portable Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories "The Bear," "Spotted Horses," "A Rose for Emily," and "Old Man," among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the complete text of Faulkner's 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Malcolm Cowley's critical introduction was praised as "splendid" by Faulkner himself.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. His descriptions of the war "rise to magnificence," according to The New York Times, and include, in Malcolm Cowley's words, "some of the most powerful scenes he ever conceived."

The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.

"What a pleasure! . . . Essential for understanding Faulkner, and a good read for everybody." -Noel Polk