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| Title | : | The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | William Faulkner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | The Corrected Text |
| Pages | : | Pages: 409 pages |
| Published | : | October 29th 1991 by Vintage International (first published 1940) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. Southern. Literary Fiction |
William Faulkner
Paperback | Pages: 409 pages Rating: 3.87 | 4565 Users | 257 Reviews
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The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.
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| Original Title: | The Hamlet |
| ISBN: | 0679736530 (ISBN13: 9780679736530) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Snopes Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Flem Snopes, Will Warner, Ab Snopes |
| Setting: | Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 4565 Users | 257 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy #1)
Broken into four sections, and published occasionally as short stories, The Hamlet begins Faulkner's Snopes family trilogy.Set in Frenchmen's Bend on Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha River, this tale begins as Al Snopes and his family sign-on to be tenant farmers on Will Varner's land. By the end of the book, Al's son Flem has married the Varner's daughter, is running the Varner's store, and has pissed off Varner's son. The whole story is told by the very observant V.K. Ratliff, who doesn't miss aIf you are planning to read Faulkner, you must be prepared to take your meat raw. It has been decades since I initially read The Hamlet, and I had forgotten how coarse and unrestrained the writing could be at times. It was as if Faulkner wanted you to never mistake this world for one in which there was any refinement or justice or sanity, as if he meant to reveal how unendurable a life could really be. The story, or stories if you will, since there are several told here, with only the barest
It was now September. The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless--a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer. First Edition of The Hamlet published in 1940Will Varner
Faulkner's first Snopes novel is a bridge from modernism to postmodernism. The narrator is not unreliable, but he is a rather sneaky character. The story is told much by hearsay. The narrator knows more than everyone else, but not much more than the town gossips who stand on the gallery of the store and chew tobacco, eat cheese and crackers, or smoke pipes. The Snopes represent a shift in the culture, in the way of life in this little village in turn of the (20th) century Mississippi. Barn
Faulkner's first Snopes novel is a bridge from modernism to postmodernism. The narrator is not unreliable, but he is a rather sneaky character. The story is told much by hearsay. The narrator knows more than everyone else, but not much more than the town gossips who stand on the gallery of the store and chew tobacco, eat cheese and crackers, or smoke pipes. The Snopes represent a shift in the culture, in the way of life in this little village in turn of the (20th) century Mississippi. Barn
This book gives the impression that the author had a number of stories to tell so he sorted them out in a sequential order along a generalized timeline, located the action in his favorite fictional setting, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and like magic this book appeared. Faulkner is a world class story teller, and his writing skills shine in this book.Much of the dialog in this book is filled with southern witticisms and colorful metaphor which give the story a humorous tone. But there is
The first book of the Snopes trilogy finds us in Frenchman's Bend a small Mississippi town built in the ruins of an old stately plantation. In the aftermath of the war the somewhat shady character Flem Snopes shows up and pretty quickly begins taking over the town. The main theme I suppose is the abject poverty of the townsfolk and the downright greed that drives some of them. It's pretty much four stories - some loosely related. I could have done without the one about weird Ike Snopes and his
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