As I Lay Dying
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As I Lay Dying opens with urgency and intimacy as William Faulkner plunges readers into a family bound by duty, denial, and relentless motion. The novel announces its intent immediately by refusing comfort, clarity, or a single truth, instead demanding the reader confront grief as lived experience rather than sentiment.
Description
Faulkner tells the story through a chorus of voices, each character asserting their own reality with force and contradiction. The Bundren family carries their matriarch’s body across Mississippi to honor a burial promise, yet every mile exposes selfish motives, moral fractures, and private obsessions. Action and interior thought collide as the journey strips away pretense and exposes raw human will.
The novel advances through momentum rather than plot comfort. Floods, fire, injury, and decay press the family forward, while language fractures into stark rhythms and blunt revelations. Faulkner refuses explanation and instead lets voice, choice, and consequence shape meaning, creating a work that feels immediate, difficult, and uncompromising.
Numbered eBooks: 199
Number of Unique Covers: 67
Number of 1:1 Covers: 18
As I Lay Dying
15 Unique Designs
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= 75 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 124 - 198
(37.69% of Supply)
The Final Resting Place
13 Unique Designs
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= 52 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 72 - 123
(26.13% of Supply)
The Long Journey
12 Unique Designs
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= 36 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 36 - 71
(18.09% of Supply)
The Inferno
9 Unique Designs
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eBook Numbers 18 - 35
(9.05% of Supply)
The River Crossing
7 Unique Designs
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= 7 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 11 - 17
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The Rot
6 Unique Designs
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= 6 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 5 - 10
(3.02% of Supply)
The Reaper
5 Unique Designs
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= 5 NFT eBooks
eBook Numbers 0 - 4
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Details
Publisher : Book.io
First Publication Date : 1930
Author : William Faulkner
Word Count : 59,000
Format : DEA (Decentralized Encrypted Asset)
Read On : Book.io eReader dApp
Cover Art : Includes 4K hi-resolution book cover
Cardano Policy ID : 5936ef0e86aa1f1faa92ae4f7a6818370f9d39484a099490c01510d7
Author Info
William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897–1962) reshaped American literature through bold experimentation with voice, time, and regional identity. He drew deeply from the American South to explore memory, guilt, class, and moral decay, crafting stories that challenged narrative convention and demanded active engagement from readers. His work earned the Nobel Prize in Literature and permanently altered the possibilities of the modern novel.… Read More
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