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Name: The Hamlet

Author: William Faulkner
Year: 1940
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9780679736530
0679736530

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This book is part of the "The Snopes Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Mansion"
First published in 1959
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"The Town"
First published in 1957
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