false <![CDATA[The Hamlet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512864m/12995.jpg 12995 11 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. 1175724 1940 The Hamlet total:809|5:235|4:293|3:212|2:49|1:20| 809 3101 1179 44 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 05:59:47 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 06:23:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 15:43:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 11:16:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri May 02 20:08:32 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 27 12:30:03 -0700 2009 The Hamlet, by William Faulkner, offered a unique glimpse into the harsh period between the 1890’s and the early twentieth century in Mississippi. The book used historical fiction to paint a qualitatively accurate picture of post-Reconstruction Mississippi, which was defined by the tumultuous mixt...

more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 07 10:24:22 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 27 20:28:04 -0800 2008 Sound and the Fury, where the smoothness is productive of something new, and not just a step back from a more high-modernist impulse. The way this story presents the economics of the business takeover of Frenchman's Bend by the Snopes family is fascinating--so much of it told...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 22 15:54:05 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 06 19:23:29 -0700 2008 however, i can see why some readers didn't care for it...
i made a comment somewhere else that it was a mystery to me why faulkner all but abandoned his early experimental high modernist style...after finishing this book i can confidently...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 10:27:25 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 06:30:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 25 17:12:11 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:16:00 -0800 2008
You can tell from reading that guy just had a better time writing than most people have doing anything...I like to picture him scribbling away with a bottle of whiskey on the desk...every ten pages or so there tend to be clumps of word repetit...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 03 06:00:52 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 02 06:30:29 -0700 2009
First of all, I will say that it was unbelievably well written. The imagery and scope of the story are difficult to pull off and Faulkner is obviously a master. Second, I will say that they story of the Snopes clan is pretty fa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 06:41:34 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 06:49:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Apr 05 14:19:50 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 08:08:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 16 08:57:11 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 09:10:33 -0700 2009 "The barred inconstant shadow of the day's retrograde flowed steadily over them as they crossed the ridge and descended into shadow, into the azure bowl of evening, the windless well of night."]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 13:30:20 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 15:02:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 09:12:35 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 09:15:06 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:12:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 20:13:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 20:13:57 -0700 2009 0 1 false false Mon Nov 17 07:28:06 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 20:05:30 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 16:30:48 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 16:31:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 26 16:25:29 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 20:15:26 -0700 2009 The Town and The Mansion).]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 30 07:19:50 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 06:54:13 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 06:57:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 1992 Wed Mar 26 17:56:19 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 17:59:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 24 16:49:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 11:10:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12995