An edition of As I Lay Dying (1915)

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An edition of As I Lay Dying (1915)

As I Lay Dying.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.64 ·
  • 11 Ratings
  • 148 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 24 Have read

This novel depicts a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood, fire, and the chaos of their own feelings.

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American Manuscripts, Death, Burial, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Stream-of-Consciousness, Facsimiles, Fiction, Problem families, Married women, Parent and adult child, Manuscripts, Dysfunctional families, Families, Criticism and interpretation, Social life and customs, Domestic fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, family life, American Domestic fiction, History and criticism, Death in literature, Romance norte americano, Fiction, family life, general, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place), Burial--fiction, Death--fiction, Ps3511.a86 a85 2010, 813/.52, American fiction, World literature, Fiction subjects
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William Faulkner (1897-1962)
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Mississippi
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Early 20th century, 1920s

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As I Lay Dying
2019, Arcturus, Arcturus Publishing
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As I lay dying: the corrected text
2000, Modern Library
in English - 2000 Modern Library ed.
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As I Lay Dying.
2000, Random
in English
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As I Lay Dying
January 4, 1996, Vintage
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As I Lay Dying
1990-10, Vintage International, Demco Media
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As I lay dying: the corrected text
1990, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vingate international ed.
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As I lay dying : the corrected text
1987
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As I Lay Dying
1972, Vintage Books
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As I lay dying
1972, Vintage Books
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As I Lay Dying
1966?, Random House
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As I lay dying.
1964, Random House
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813
Library of Congress
PS3511.A86

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OL23115901M
Internet Archive
asilaydyingcorre00faul_512
ISBN 10
0375504524
ISBN 13
9780375504525
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3360
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10974

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Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose.

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