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    As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner

    3.25 (11)

    Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file.

    #115
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    7,153
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    Light in August

    Light in August

    William Faulkner

    4.2 (5)

    Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'

    #229
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    2,971
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    The Sound and the Fury

    The Sound and the Fury

    William Faulkner

    3.56 (15)

    Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

    #90
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    9,059
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    Absalom, Absalom!

    Absalom, Absalom!

    William Faulkner

    3.0 (5)

    From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that---

    #216
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    3,188
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