As I lay dying

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes The Sound and the Fury Light in August Absalom Absalom! and Selected Short StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels As I Lay Dying originally published in 1930 remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson Mississippi far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South one of literature’s great invented landscapes and is replete with the poignant impoverished violent and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark. Along with a new Foreword by E. L. Doctorow this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.