num_pages: 231
description: One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.Along with a new foreword by E. L. Doctorow, this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.
language: English
title: As I Lay Dying
titlecomplete: As I Lay Dying
characters: Darl Bundren, Peabody, Cash Bundren, Dewey Dell, Addie Bundren, Jewel Bundren, Vernon Tull, Anse Bundren, Cora Tull, Vardaman Bundren
genres: 20th Century, American, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Southern Gothic, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 162609
places: Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, The United States of America
publisher: Modern Library