The Hamlet Author:William Faulkner In the over-all design of the trilogy devoted to the origin, rise, and dominance of the Snopes family, The hamlet is the first novel. The chronicle of the Snopeses, who took root in Yoknapatawpha County and proliferated through and beyond it until they outmaneuvered and overpowered a society and a culture that had little defense against their in... more »vincible rapacity, is continued in The Town and concluded in tThe Mansion.« less
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.