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  2. As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey, referring to the similar themes of both works.

    • William Faulkner
    • 1930
  3. As I Lay Dying by Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner and first published in 1930. It is a work of some daring—one that forgoes the unified perspective of a single narrator and fragments its text into 59 segments voiced from 15 different perspectives.

  4. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

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  5. Literary Period: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a representative work of literary modernism, a movement which established itself in the early 20th century. The havoc of World War I caused an impulse in society, demoralized by war, to challenge society’s very foundations and to uproot tradition.

  6. A short summary of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of As I Lay Dying.

    • William Faulkner
    • 1930
  7. Mar 25, 2024 · As I Lay Dying, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1930. It is one of the many novels that Faulkner set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Miss., U.S. The story unfolds by means of fragmented and intercut narration by each of the characters. These include Addie Bundren, to whom the title.

  8. Get all the key plot points of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

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