検索キーワード： "William Faulkner" 歴史小説

In 1906, an Egyptologist uncovered a map carved in stone inside an ancient temple. Convinced that it pointed to a lost city of gold somewhere deep in the desert, he set out on another expedition the following year. He was never seen again. In present day Yale, a professor is brutally murdered on the university campus, and a mysterious artefact is stolen from its vaults.

This timeless tale, set in the aftermath of World War I, explores the complexities of love, loss, and the human spirit. Follow the journey of Donald Mahon, a wounded aviator returning home, and the lives of those who surround him—each grappling with their own struggles and desires.

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man...

Publicada en 1926, La paga de los soldados, primera novela de William Faulkner, es una de las obras más memorables que ha inspirado la Primera Guerra Mundial. Faulkner narra con gran originalidad y belleza la historia de la vuelta a casa de un veterano herido, Donald Mahon, eje central sobre el que gira la vida de tres soldados, y el impacto que su regreso del frente causa en aquellos que dejaron atrás, especialmente las mujeres.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.