Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they
would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes
trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of
Faulkner's imagination. "The Hamlet, "the first book of the series
chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in
mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called
"one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon." It recounts how
the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of
Frenchman's Bend--and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his
bride. "The Town, " the second novel, records Flem's ruthless
struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi.
Finally, "The Mansion "tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of
honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his
concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the
nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for
that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of
our classics."
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