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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as “A Bear Hunt, ” “A Rose for Emily,” “Two Soldiers,” and “The Brooch.”

Книга для чтения на английском языке. Уильям Катберт Фолкнер (1897-1962) знаменитый американский писатель, поэт. "Свет в августе" (1932) роман о поиске своего "я". В нем главный герой - мулат, и поэтому он не может найти свое место ни среди представителей черной расы, ни белой... В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him...

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. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children, his...

In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. The characters are largely based on Faulkner's own family; in particular, Colonel John Sartoris is a fairly faithful portrait of the author's extraordinary great-grandfather - a notable personality who fought in Mexico, was tried for murder, raised a Confederate regiment, built a railway, ran a plantation, and published a bestseller.

'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads with Temple to intercede, but will the past allow for justice or absolution in the present? Switching between narrative prose and play script, this is Faulkner's haunting sequel to his earlier bestseller, Sanctuary.

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of circumstances.

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. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

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. And as the intense...

The Sound and the Fury is a brilliant and lyrical virtuoso narrative in which Faulkner chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, whose struggle to articulate his vision of life is one of the most moving episodes in modern fiction.

Dieser Roman erzahlt die Geschichte der Familie Compson uber drei Jahrzehnte, beginnend mit Benjy, dem geistig behinderten Sohn des Hauses. Er kennt kein Gestern, Heute und Morgen, ist so auf ewig in der Gegenwart gefangen. Fur Quentin, den Altesten, bricht 1910 der letzte Tag in Harvard an. Er pruft sein geistiges Erbe, ordnet den sparlichen Nachlass und findet kaum Grunde, die ihn noch ans Leben binden. Und so fallt Jason, dem Jungsten, die Rolle des Familienvorstands zu – eine Rolle, die er...

In neuer Ubersetzung von Nikolaus Stingl: «Absalom, Absalom», der vielleicht beruhmteste und beste Roman aus dem Faulkner'schen Mythos des Yoknapatawpha Cunty in Mississippi. Aus der biblischen Geschichte von Absalom, in die Zeit des amerikanischen Burgerkriegs versetzt, wird die Geschichte der Sutpens erzahlt, die sich uber mehr als ein Jahrhundert erstreckt. Thomas Sutpen stammt aus einer armen wei?en Familie, heiratet auf Haiti die reiche Eulalia Bon und taucht 1833 plotzlich mit einem...

Die Legende von Addie Bundren beginnt und endet am selben Ort: in Yoknapatawpha County. Vier Tage nach Addies Tod machen sich die Hinterbliebenen auf den Weg in die Kreisstadt Jefferson, um sie dort beizusetzen. Doch auf dem Weg gerat der Leichenzug in immer neue Schwierigkeiten: Im Hochwasser sturzt eine Brucke ein, bei der Durchquerung des Flusses gehen Fuhrwerk und Sarg beinahe verloren. Zu allem Ungluck bricht sich der alteste Sohn, Cash, das bereits verkruppelte Bein. Und die Tochter Dewey...