As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner audiobook

As I Lay Dying

By William Faulkner
Read by David Stifel, Edoardo Ballerini, Elisabeth Rodgers, Tim Campbell,
Amanda Stribling, Andrew Eiden, Dion Graham, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Jim Meskimen,
Elizabeth Wiley, Joe Barrett, Charlie Thurston, Nick Sullivan, Adam Verner, and Sean Pratt  

Blackstone Publishing 9798212633765

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  • Available on 03/07/2026

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Category: Fiction/Classics
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of All Time

From Nobel Prize–winning author William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying is a masterpiece of Southern Gothic literature and one of the best books of the twentieth century. This gorgeous hardcover edition includes decorated endpapers and a set of brand-new illustrations.

As she nears the end of her life, Addie Bundren wants nothing more than to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. A captivating and stylistically innovative work, the narrative revolves around the grim, yet darkly humorous, pilgrimage as the Bundren family sets out to fulfill her last wish.

Told from fifteen different points of view over fifty-nine chapters, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South, and is replete with poignant, complex, violent, and fascinating characters.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[As I Lay Dying] is a book that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let you go. By the time you get to the final sentence of the novel, one of the cruelest, most devastating punchlines in all literature, you get the sense that Faulkner achieved what he set out to accomplish with this book—a tour de force.” —Ahmed Honeini, Faulkner Scholar with the University of London
“A genuinely great comic novel.” —David Hering, Fivebooks
“Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a true tour-de-force.” —BrainChron
“It’s the style, structure, and refracted, dreamlike narrative voices that make it so compelling…Read As I Lay Dying for an extraordinary experience.” —SeattlePi
“As I Lay Dying is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict.” —Library of America
“Without a doubt, one of the greatest books of the twentieth century.” —Colin’s Review

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Author

Author Bio: William Faulkner

Author Bio: William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897–1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short-story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories, but he was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. The majority of his works are based in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. In 1962, he was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction.

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Hardcover
Category: Fiction/Classics
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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