A Rose for Emily
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A literary classic from one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers, A Rose for Emily is William Faulkner at his finest. The community of the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, has come together for the funeral of longtime resident Emily Grierson, an eccentric recluse and one of the last antebellum Southern aristocrats. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn the tragedy of Emily's life—the father who kept her from marrying and the northerner who claimed her heart before mysteriously disappearing. The world moves on while Emily's life remains seemingly unchanged. It's only after Emily is laid to rest that the townsfolk learn her horrifying secrets . . .
"The greatest artist the South has produced." —Ralph Ellison
"No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there." —Eudora Welty
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William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American Southern literature, and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature made him the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the one hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century. Also on the list were Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932).
