- American Manuscripts, Death, Brothers and sisters, Aristocracy (Social class)
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- William Faulkner
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 358
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library, "Univers", Listening Library
- Editions
- 94
- Language
- English, Japanese, vie, rum
- ISBN
- 9780394601878
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William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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