Description: Hawthorne's stark and allegorical tale of adultery, concealed guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England remains a foundational work of American literature. Now supplemented by a new introduction by Kathryn Harrison, along with notes and commentary. Thought by some to be Faulkner's finest work, _As I Lay Dying_ (1930) revolves around a strange pilgrimage, as the family of Addie Bundren (who dies at the book's beginning) sets out to fulfill her last wish - to be buried in her native Jefferson, MI, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. The novel takes place in Faulkner's Mississippi (Yoknapatawpha Country and Jefferson) - one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature - and is replete with the poor, often degraded, and always searingly-etched characters that were Faulkner's trademark. _As I Lay Dying_ is a great example of the stream-of-consciousness style Faulkner partly pioneered.

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