Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Light in August (Hardcover)

from brenzi

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." (Page 119) I thought I had a mental block for William Faulkner. I thought I was spoiled for him forty years ago when an over-reaching college professor thought The Sound and the Fury was...

from kambrogi

If you want to explore the growth of the literary arts in the 20th century, then read William Faulkner. What Shakespeare was to his age, Dostoevsky was to his, Faulkner was to his own. He reshaped what it meant to create literary fiction, in a way both clear and dense, both mundane and biblical, ...

from janemarieprice

I won't summarize what this book is about because I'm not in a high enough intellectual sphere to be able to do that. Instead, I will talk about three things which I kept thinking about while reading - rhythm, quiet, and salvation. First, let's talk about rhythm. Usually when I start a book, I re...

from Donna828

I have spent six weeks with the inhabitants of Jefferson, MS in the post-Civil War mentality of racial hatred and injustice. This is a time when even the rumor of having black blood can doom a man to a life of sorrow and persecution. In the case of the orphaned Joe Christmas, the taunts of childr...

from hemlokgang

This is the third novel of Faulkner's that I have read and it is absolutely flawless! The prose begs to be read aloud as poetry throughout the book, the story is fascinating in and of itself and also historically intriguing, and the characters are deeply engaging. Faulkner's deeply Southern story...