William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner's novel explores the decay of a Southern family, the Compsons, through the fragmented thoughts of its siblings, haunted by their past and consumed by their present.
The Bundren family's difficult, often absurd journey to bury their matriarch Addie unravels their raw desires, ancient fears, and bitter rivalries, all while her coffin slowly decomposes.
In the hot American South, a pregnant woman looks for her lover, while a mysterious drifter's past reveals the deep prejudices and violence of a small Mississippi town.
In the racially charged Deep South, a young white boy races against a lynch mob to prove the innocence of an elderly black farmer accused of murder, repaying a life debt and confronting the town's ingrained prejudices.
During World War I, a French corporal's rebellion against the war machine forces a reckoning with faith, sacrifice, and humanity's capacity for both destruction and redemption.
Two tales, one of illicit love's flight into the wilderness and another of a convict's selfless rescue through a flooded landscape, combine to show deliverance and spiritual damnation in the American South.
In the post-World War I South, the last member of a declining aristocratic family deals with his family's past and the effects of war, heading towards a tragic end amid fading glory and tradition.
