The Mansion, by William Faulkner (used)

Second-hand copy — condition: very good. Inscribed by previous owner.

The Mansion completes William Faulkner's trilogy of the Snopes family, after The Hamlet and The Town, and is set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in and around the town of Jefferson. The novel is told in three parts, "Mink", "Linda" and "Flem", through the voices of Gavin Stevens, V.K. Ratliff and Charles Mallison. It traces the downfall of the Snopes clan, a post-Civil War family that took control of Jefferson within a single generation: the story that began with the murder of Jack Houston ends with the murder of Flem Snopes, as Mink Snopes, released after 38 years in prison, comes to settle his score. Along the way Faulkner takes in the Southern economy after the Civil War, rural populism, and the racial and social tensions of the South. First published in 1959.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer, born in New Albany, Mississippi, best known for his fiction of the American South set in Yoknapatawpha County, including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.

The Reprint Society, London, 1962, by arrangement with Chatto & Windus (first published 1961). Hardcover.