Snopes
The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
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Publisher Description
Here, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner’s famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author’s incomparable imagination.
The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called “one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon.” It recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman’s Bend—and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the central novel, records Flem’s ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. “For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man,” noted Ralph Ellison. “Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics.”
Customer Reviews
Snopes: The Town, The Hamlet and The Mansion
The book itself is a literacy masterpiece - five stars.
It's too bad that that the e-Book version is riddled with typos. I cross checked the original printed version against the e-version (where I thought the proof readers had failed) and the e-book proof readers have done a terrible job of ensuring the accuracy of e-book (did they even cross-check the original printed one against this one?).
For example, with the e-book version open to a single page view (page 993) the phrase "fifty acres of diit" appears. It should read (as it does in the printed version): "fifty acres of dirt".
Several other examples are as follows: Page 1275 (Single page of the digital version is spelled "MeadowfilPs". It should read "Meadowfill's".
On page 1381 of the ebook (single page rendering) or page 1055 of the original text the word "modter" should read "mother".
On page 1014 of the printed text and 1327 (single page of the digital version) should read "Did anyone ever say you were not?" but instead reads "Oid anyone ever say you were not".
On page 1329 of the digital edition (single page rendering) - Should note "In which case" not "Hi which case".
Later in the text Faulkner refers to the F.B.I. investigating the character of Linda Snopes - the word F.B.I. appears with a subscript I instead of a uppercase I.
This shows that in the rush to digitize the text, the editors were sloppy in their proof reading.
The printed version is superior to the e-version and is a disgrace to Faulkner's mastepiece and to the casual reader who will not be able to discern the difference.
$16 is lot to spend (plus tax) on an inferior typo-filled copy of a text - 0 stars for the typos.
The content of this book - thirty-four (34) years in the making - is unprecedented.
Buy the printed version if you want an accurate version of this text.