The Mansion (1959): Typescript Draft (William Faulkner Manuscripts, 22)

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"The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable postbellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation."--Page 4 of cover.

subjects: American Manuscripts,  Facsimiles,  Fiction,  Manuscripts,  Snopes family (Fictitious characters),  Social life and customs,  Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place),  American literature,  Familienchronik,  University of South Alabama,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction,  Fiction, general,  Mississippi, fiction

People: William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Places: Mississippi,  Southern States