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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic [1] novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. [2] [3] [4] The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey, [5] referring to the similar themes of both works.
Tommy Lee Jones's neo-Western film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estada was partly based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. [101] During the Nazi Occupation of France in World War II, the German occupiers banned American literature. A black-market of American books emerged, and reading works by Hemingway and Faulkner became an act of defiance. [102]
The second book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. [13] 1959 The Mansion: Random House The third book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. [14] 1962 The Reivers: Random House Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. [14] 1973 Flags in the Dust† Random House Original manuscript of what became Sartoris, prior to extensive editing [15]
At Faulkner's behest, subsequent printings of The Sound and the Fury frequently contain the appendix at the end of the book; it is sometimes referred to as the fifth part. Written sixteen years after The Sound and the Fury , the appendix shows textual differences from the novel, but serves to clarify the novel's opaque story.
As he lay dying, Sidney composed a song to be sung by his deathbed. According to the story, which may be apocryphal, while lying wounded, he gave his water to another wounded soldier saying, "Thy ...
As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's 1930 novel of the same name.The film stars Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, Ahna O'Reilly, Jim Parrack, Beth Grant, and Brady Permenter.
The Big Book, first published in 1939, was the size of a hymnal. With its passionate appeals to faith made in the rat-a-tat cadence of a door-to-door salesman, it helped spawn other 12-step-based institutions, including Hazelden, founded in 1949 in Minnesota. Hazelden, in turn, would become a model for facilities across the country.
Several members of the controversial metal band As I Lay Dying have abruptly left the group, citing undisclosed “personal” issues. “My time playing with As I Lay Dying has come to an end today.