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Banned Books Awareness: “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner

February 27, 2011 R. Wolf Baldassarro 3

As I Lay Dying, by American author William Faulkner, was published in 1930.  The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, when Agamemnon says to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” As I […]

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