Book Reviews of The Hamlet

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.

From the book back:
The the Snopes family - shrewd, grasping, energetic, inexorable - is one of William Falkner's most notable fiction creations, a symbol of one element of the post-bellum South and, indeed, of modern America. "The Hamlet", his 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.

"The Hamlet" is Falkner at his best. It is subtle and yet direct, brilliantly evocative of a decaying South after the Civil War. In this book he is unsurpassable."
- - The New York Times

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