num_pages: 250
description: As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members—including Addie herself—the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.
language: English
title: As I lay dying
titlecomplete: As I lay dying (The Collected works of William Faulkner)
characters: Peabody, Cash Bundren, Vernon Tull, Vardaman Bundren, Addie Bundren, Jewel Bundren, Cora Tull, Anse Bundren, Darl Bundren, Dewey Dell
genres: Classics, Southern, Fiction, Southern Gothic, Novels, School, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 162609
places: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, The United States of America, Mississippi
publisher: Chatto and Windus