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| Original Title: | Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion |
| ISBN: | 0679600922 (ISBN13: 9780679600923) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Snopes Trilogy #1-3 |
William Faulkner
Hardcover | Pages: 1072 pages Rating: 4.36 | 707 Users | 46 Reviews
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| Title | : | Snopes (The Snopes Trilogy #1-3) |
| Author | : | William Faulkner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1072 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 1994 by Modern Library (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics |
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Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner's imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called "one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon." It recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman's Bend - and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the second novel, records Flem's ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics."Rating Out Of Books Snopes (The Snopes Trilogy #1-3)
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Five stars isn't nearly enough for this masterpiece. A comprehensive and intricate look at the many personalities that make up Yoknapatawpha County. Like all of the best Faulkner novels, this book presents worlds within worlds. Comic set pieces that reveal great psychological depths; Tortured scenes of anger and revenge that hinge on silly misunderstandings; great studies of love, hate, envy, ambition, parenthood, childhood, and horse trading. Like the bible or Huckleberry Finn, this is a bookIt has been many years since I have picked up anything by Faulkner, but this edition has been beckoning me from my bookshelf for many years. Having just completed The Hamlet portion of the Snopes Trilogy, I laughed aloud for a good part of it. What a great story teller! Apparently this edition includes many pages that were not included in previous editions for fear of offending readers. And unlike the critical mass of what I read, its characters will remain embedded in my mind forever.
Finished The Hamlet on July 26, 2006. I finished The Town on February 6, 2007. Completed The Mansion on February 23, 2007.
Faulkner tells the story of the rise of the Snopes family through three novels,"The Hamlet"; "The Town"; and "The Mansion." It is a stunning cycle of stories depicting the decay of the south as it is overtaken by new social values at odds with the past.At times the story is told by an apparent omniscient narrator. At others it is solely told from the perspective of specific voices, especially the attorney Gavin Stevens, his nephew Chick Mallison, and V.K. Ratkliff, a travelling salesman, vending
When Faulkner wrote about the Southern aristocracy from which he sprang, his stories were psychologically complex, but not really complimentary. His subjects are often thuggish and brutal. But here, in his most epic set of novels, he reaches back and finds a special sort of loathing -- common throughout the world, and by no means unique to the US South -- of the old-money aristocrat for the grasping, small-minded nouveau riche. It is striking how -- apart from the outcasts Mink (a cracker
Sho' now. I certainly am not fit to give ol' windbags anything less than 5 stars. A true epic masterpiece, that's all. If brevity is the soul of wit, as the man says, then this book is as soulless as they come. No, that's not right. Sho', it has soul. Plenty. Just none in the direction of brevity. Why use 3 words when 30 would do? Sho. If you ever have spent a spell on the front porch of your grandparents and listened to them spin a yarn - and if you happen to be graced with a Southern birth -
This entire saga is a thing to behold. "Even when you get rid of one Snopes, theres already another one behind you even before you can turn around." Indeed, the Snopes family is insidious and they'll burrow deep into your psyche long after you've turned the last page on this epic. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of what still feels like a very American form of "happiness." Blood may be thicker than water, but money still makes most of the world go 'round...Individually, I rated the three books
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