Folio: Domaine Faulkner (Series #A31386) (Paperback)

from BeaverMeyer

The Hamlet is the best, but The Town is also great. The Mansion is very good, but it's not as terrific as the first two. I recommend reading all three of these at once to get the full scope of the Snopes family, which isn't even Faulkner's most well-drawn family. (I like the McCaslin family) But ...

from ateolf

generally, the praise i see for this trilogy plots a declining slope with The Hamlet unanimously receiving much accolade and varying degrees less being lauded upon the others with The Mansion at the bottom of this descent of fluctuant proportions, from "close, but not quite as good as the others"...

from BeaverMeyer

The Hamlet is the best, but The Town is also great. The Mansion is very good, but it's not as terrific as the first two. I recommend reading all three of these at once to get the full scope of the Snopes family, which isn't even Faulkner's most well-drawn family. (I like the McCaslin family) But ...

from ateolf

generally, the praise i see for this trilogy plots a declining slope with The Hamlet unanimously receiving much accolade and varying degrees less being lauded upon the others with The Mansion at the bottom of this descent of fluctuant proportions, from "close, but not quite as good as the others"...