The Hamlet
William Faulkner
Hardcover
(Random House, March 15, 1951)
DJ notes it won the Nobel price for Literature,1950, 373 pages , publisher's price on DJ is 3.95;back of DJ has picture of Faulkner reading a book. "The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend,