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The following editions of The
Town are available for purchase online:
The Town
Vintage books
Paperback
ISBN: 0394701844
Published 1973
Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
Modern Library
Paperback
ISBN: 0679600922
Published 1991
Novels, 1957-1962: The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers
Library of America
Hardcover
ISBN: 1883011698
Published 1999
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Published May
1, 1957, by Random House.
Volume 2 of the “Snopes” trilogy, The
Town continues the exploits of Flem
Snopes where The Hamlet left
off. Flem moves from Frenchmans
Bend to Jefferson, where
he begins an ambitious attempt to take over the town, securing a
job at the power plant and later a position at the bank, and planning
to avenge his wifes infidelity.
Faulkner incorporated two
previously published short stories into the novel. “Centaur
in Brass” (first published in American Mercury
in February 1932) became Chapter 1, and “Mule
in the Yard” (published in Scribners in August
1934) became Chapter 16.
The novel is narrated by three
characters: Gavin
Stevens, Charles
“Chick” Mallison, and V.
K. Ratliff. The plot covers a period from 1909, when Flem, his
wife Eula,
and Eulas daughter (and Flems step-daughter) Linda
arrive in Jefferson, to about a year after Eula kills herself in
1927.
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