The Hamlet Author:William Faulkner The Snopes family -- shrewd, grasping, energetic, inexorable -- is one of William Faulkner's most notable fictional creations.
Faulkner's twelfth novel, tells of Flem Snopes' beginnings in Yoknapatawpha County: how he establishes himself on the land, consumes a small village and invades the town of Jefferson.