Graham Greene's first published novel represented for the author "one sentimental gesture towards his own past, the period of ambition and hope."

Two light-skinned African American women try to pass for white to escape racism, and Clare Kendry cuts her ties to the past and to Irene Redfield

Retells the tragic times of the Compson family, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brut

The story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monol

Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame, not because her skin is black, but because it's too black.