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Title	:	The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy #1)
Author	:	William Faulkner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	The Corrected Text
Pages	:	Pages: 409 pages
Published	:	October 29th 1991 by Vintage International (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. Southern. Literary Fiction

The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy #1)

William Faulkner

Paperback | Pages: 409 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 4565 Users | 257 Reviews

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The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.

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Original Title:	The Hamlet
ISBN:	0679736530 (ISBN13: 9780679736530)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Snopes Trilogy #1
Characters:	Flem Snopes, Will Warner, Ab Snopes
Setting:	Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States)

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Faulkner's first Snopes novel is a bridge from modernism to postmodernism. The narrator is not unreliable, but he is a rather sneaky character. The story is told much by hearsay. The narrator knows more than everyone else, but not much more than the town gossips who stand on the gallery of the store and chew tobacco, eat cheese and crackers, or smoke pipes. The Snopes represent a shift in the culture, in the way of life in this little village in turn of the (20th) century Mississippi. Barn

The first book of the Snopes trilogy finds us in Frenchman's Bend a small Mississippi town built in the ruins of an old stately plantation. In the aftermath of the war the somewhat shady character Flem Snopes shows up and pretty quickly begins taking over the town. The main theme I suppose is the abject poverty of the townsfolk and the downright greed that drives some of them. It's pretty much four stories - some loosely related. I could have done without the one about weird Ike Snopes and his

The subtitle of my edition states: A Novel of the Snopes Family, and that pretty much covers it. The book is set roughly between the end of the Civil War and the first decade or two of the 20th century, although Faulkner himself was vague and self-contradictory about the time period. Nevertheless, the circumstances that form the background in the novel are a direct result of the defeat of the Southern states. Depending on your worldview, you might say it was Gods judgment against the people

This book gives the impression that the author had a number of stories to tell so he sorted them out in a sequential order along a generalized timeline, located the action in his favorite fictional setting, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and like magic this book appeared. Faulkner is a world class story teller, and his writing skills shine in this book.Much of the dialog in this book is filled with southern witticisms and colorful metaphor which give the story a humorous tone. But there is

My American Literature professor at Columbia told us that this was the ideal starting point for reading the novels of William Faulkner. The language is clear and easy to read and the bigger than life characters are easy to understand and identify with. Personally, when I was at Columbia I felt out of place and unwanted, just like Flem Snopes. Maybe that's why I always found the tone of this novel a little too glib, and smug. William Faulkner is a big promoter of the myth of southern gentility,



One of the most memorable books I have ever read. Haunting.Maybe I'll review it tomorrow but what can I say?You'll either read Faulkner someday or you won't.I can't think of a better novel to start out with, though.