Jan 4, 2010

The Sound and the Fury | What Do I Read Next?

A tale of incest in the Sutpen family set in the South, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) features Quentin Compson as a character.

Truman Capote's 1948 novel Other Voices, Other Rooms is the story of alienated youth set in the author's usual Southern Gothic atmosphere.

Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic novel Gone with the Wind, published in 1936, depicts the destruction of Southern culture during the Civil War.

Robert Perm Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men portrays a charismatic Southern...