num_pages: 250
description: One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and 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 to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, it vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.
language: English
title: As I Lay Dying
titlecomplete: As I Lay Dying
characters: Addie Bundren, Jewel Bundren, Dewey Dell, Cash Bundren, Vardaman Bundren, Cora Tull, Peabody, Anse Bundren, Vernon Tull, Darl Bundren
genres: Fiction, American, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 162710
places: Mississippi, The United States of America, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
publisher: Random House