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Length
7 hours 3 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver & Jesmyn Ward
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“I will try to express just how much I love this book. Growing up in Missouri, with relatives from the Midwest/South, I can say that without a doubt my elders spoke similarly to the characters in this book. Faulkner does such a great job of overlapping time between different character viewpoints in this book. The moment I started reading it I swear I couldn't put it down. When reading this book it is easy to think that the father, Anse, has the best intentions for his dying wife and family. Though in the end you realize the truth of the matter is much different.”
— Otillia E. • Page 1 Books
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.
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.
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Audiobook details
Author:
William Faulkner
Narrators:
Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver & Jesmyn Ward
ISBN:
9780739325377
Length:
7 hours 3 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
August 16, 2005
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#8,509 Overall
Genre rank:
#164 in Classics
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"For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country."--Robert Penn Warren Expand reviews
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