As I Lay Dying

About this book

One of William Faulkners finest novels As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930 and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage as Addie Bundrens family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson Mississippi far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices it vividly brings to life Faulkners imaginary South one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature and is replete with the poignant impoverished violent and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark. This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.