The Hamlet by William Faulkner [1964 HARDCOVER]

The Hamlet by William Faulkner

THIRD EDITION [1964] RANDOM HOUSE

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket has light shelf wear, a few tiny corner tears and a bit of tanning.  Book itself is beautiful with very minimal wear.  

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, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.