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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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As I Lay Dying

Author
William Faulkner
Narrator
Brian Tomason
Publisher
CLXBX
Publish Date
6 February 2026
Run Time
5 hours 6 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general
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As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner's stark and devastating portrait of a family in motion and in collapse. Following the Bundrens as they transport their mother's corpse across the Mississippi countryside to fulfill her final wish, the novel unfolds through a fractured chorus of voices—each revealing private obsessions, resentments, and quiet desperation. Told in brief, unadorned monologues, Faulkner strips narrative to its bare essentials, exposing the raw mechanics of grief, duty, and endurance. The journey becomes both physical and moral, as necessity collides with pride, poverty, and the absurd weight of obligation. Unsparing and profoundly human, As I Lay Dying stands as one of the defining works of modern American literature—a study of death not as tragedy alone, but as a condition of ordinary life.

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Author
William Faulkner
Narrator
Brian Tomason
Duration
5 hours 6 minutes
Release Date
6 February 2026
ISBN
9782291592785
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
CLXBX
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general

Synopsis

As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner's stark and devastating portrait of a family in motion and in collapse. Following the Bundrens as they transport their mother's corpse across the Mississippi countryside to fulfill her final wish, the novel unfolds through a fractured chorus of voices—each revealing private obsessions, resentments, and quiet desperation. Told in brief, unadorned monologues, Faulkner strips narrative to its bare essentials, exposing the raw mechanics of grief, duty, and endurance. The journey becomes both physical and moral, as necessity collides with pride, poverty, and the absurd weight of obligation. Unsparing and profoundly human, As I Lay Dying stands as one of the defining works of modern American literature—a study of death not as tragedy alone, but as a condition of ordinary life.

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