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."

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. This volume presents fresh versions of Sophocles's Theban plays, which include the most famous of the ancient Greek tragedies, King Oedipus. Sophocles reveals the history of Oedipus from the fulfillment of the oracle that foretold he would kill his father, outwit the Sphinx, marry his mother, and have a family, through his banishment and tortured death as a blind man and the attempted redemption of the family by his daughter, Antigone. Translations are by Jascha Kessler (King Oedipus), George Garrett (Oedipus at Colonus), and Kelly Cherry (Antigone).

There are many books about famous bands and rock stars out there, but whatever happened to those musicians that did not become famous? These are the experiences of drummer-singer George Garrett and guitarist-singer Rick Lawton. They were on a crazy and unpredictable U.S. road tour in 1978, but as they were buddies and played in bands together in high school, their reminiscences go way back. What started out as a simple e-mail memory exchange grew into this book. If you have ever wondered what happened to all those club bands and musicians you used to go out to see, listen, and dance to (or even go out with) back in the 70s, read on. You might get a clue from this book

In this, his third book of poetry, Garrett presents recent poems that enhance a reputation already well established for charm of language, a frank and perceptive approach to experience, strong images, and a large understanding of life and feelings. The three sections comprising the book are well differentiated, moving from the casually actual to the neatly satirical to depth poems.
Originally published in 1961.
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The Sleeping Gypsy is an important collection of poems by an American writer who was but twenty-nine when awarded the coveted Prix de Rome in 1958. When George Garrett's first collected verse, The Reverend Ghost and Other Poems, appeared in Scribner's Poets of Today: IV, critics hailed the emergence of an authentic new talent of great promise. Babette Deutsch, writing in the New York Herald Tribune, said, "His poems are short, highly charged, and also, as he intended, clear. They move rapidly, without waste, exhibiting a lively skill and vigor in action.... His sensitive perceptivity makes his thoughtful insights more memorable." Louise Bogan, writing in the New Yorker, said, "It is good to come upon in Garrett's work] an ordered brilliance and effects, long neglected, that link us to the ancient tradition of English 'song.'"

Readers will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities that distinguished Garrett's earlier collection of verse--the pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of "pretty" poetic words, the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangely musical. Many will feel that, in this later work, these qualities have been enhanced and that Garrett's advancing maturity indicates strongly that his early promise will be richly fulfilled.

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