The mansion

by William Faulkner

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Series (with order)

The Snopes Trilogy (3)

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Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, USA

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Awards and honors

National Book Award finalist (Fiction, 1960)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1959)

Epigraph

The Mansion concludes the chronicle which Mr Faulkner started many years ago and began to treat fully in The Hamlet and The Town. [etc.]

Dedication

To Phil Stone

First words

The jury said "Guilty" and the Judge said "Life", but he didn't hear them.

Quotations

"So the one true bitch we had was not a bitch at all but a saint and martyr, the one technically true pristine immaculate unchallengeable son of a bitch we ever produced wasn't even a Snopes."

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394702824, Mass Market Paperback)

This completes the great trilogy of the Snopes family in Yoknapatawpha and traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:43:49 -0400)

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