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William Faulkner (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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William Faulkner is one of many “straight” novelists to use violent death (often under mysterious circumstances) as a central plot element. One thinks of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1852-1853) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), Fyodor Dostoevski’s Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1866; Crime and Punishment, 1886) and Bratya Karamazovy (1879-1880;...
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Barn Burning (Short Stories) -
Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen (Magill Book Reviews) -
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Fable, A (Masterplots Classics) -
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Fable, A (Literary Places) -
Go Down, Moses (Masterplots Classics) -
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Hamlet, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Hamlet, The (Character Profiles) -
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Reivers, The (Masterplots Classics) -
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Requiem for a Nun (Masterplots Classics) -
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Sanctuary (Masterplots Classics) -
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Sartoris (Masterplots Classics) -
Sartoris (Character Profiles) -
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