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The stories in Faulkner's The Hamlet form a cycle of tales dealing with the Sartoris and Snopes families, tracing their intertwinings and degenerations from the time of Abner Snopes to the early twentieth century.
Faulkner's Sanctuary (1931) is a novel of irrationality and violence that has been criticized for exploiting the violence that ‘‘Barn Burning’’ seems to condemn. Written as a potboiler, Sanctuary will also give a sense of Faulkner's more...
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