The Story
The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation.
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.31w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780307946829
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 57009 / Mansion
About the Author
WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkablebooks. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
Description
The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation.
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.31w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780307946829
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 57009 / Mansion
About the Author
WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkablebooks. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
