The Hamlet

novel by Faulkner

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The Hamlet, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1940, the first volume of a trilogy including The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959). The narrative is set in the late 19th century and depicts the early years of the crude and contemptible Flem Snopes and his clan, who by the trilogy’s end supplant the dispirited gentry class (represented by the Sartoris family) of Frenchman’s Bend, Miss.

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