The Hamlet

Description

This darkly comic masterpiece is the first novel in Faulkner’s trilogy about the Snopes family, the grasping clan that comes to dominate Yoknapatawpha County after the fall of the Confederacy.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: William Faulkner
Published: 10/29/1991
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679736530
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 0.96″ H x 8.05″ L x 5.25″ W

About the Author
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.