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Stormen och vreden är en roman av den amerikanske författaren William Faulkner, publicerad 1929. Originalets titel är The Sound and the Fury och den översattes till svenska 1964.

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Medan jag låg och dog är en modernistisk roman av den amerikanske författaren William Faulkner från 1930. Faulkner påstod att han skrev boken på sex veckor, utan att ändra ett ord av den. Han skrev den då han arbetade på ett kraftverk, och beskriver det som en "tour-de-force", då han genast förstod hela berättelsen …

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Ljus i augusti är en roman skriven av den amerikanske författaren och nobelpristagaren William Faulkner. Den kom ut på engelska 1932 och i svensk översättning av Erik Lindegren 1944. Romanen utforskar raskonflikter i de amerikanska sydstaterna.

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“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s …

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Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It is considered one of his more controversial, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely …

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven …

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One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grandfather’s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests’ black coachman, Ned …

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Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.

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Inkräktare i stoftet är en roman av den amerikanske nobelpristagaren William Faulkner, utgiven 1948.

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Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.