The Village

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"The Village" is a novel by William Faulkner that explores life, class, and moral decay in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County through the rise of the ambitious Flem Snopes.

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instanceOf novel
author William Faulkner
belongsToCanon American literature
containsMotif power and money
respectability versus corruption
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts life in a small Southern town
rise of a ruthless businessman
featuresCharacter Eula Varner Snopes
Flem Snopes
Gavin Stevens
Ratliff
V. K. Ratliff
fictionalCounty Yoknapatawpha County
followedBy The Mansion
follows The Hamlet
form prose fiction
genre Southern Gothic
modernist fiction
hasPerspective multiple viewpoints
hasPrequel The Hamlet
hasSequel The Mansion
language English
literaryMovement American modernism
mainCharacter Flem Snopes
mediaType print
narrativeFocus rise of Flem Snopes
narrativeStyle complex chronology
shifting perspectives
partOf Snopes trilogy
publicationYear 1952
publisher Random House
series Snopes trilogy
setInPeriod early 20th-century American South
setting Jefferson, Mississippi (fictional town)
Yoknapatawpha County
targetAudience adult readers
theme ambition
corruption
economic change in the American South
moral decay
small-town life
social class
timeSpanOfAction several decades in Jefferson
workOfAuthor William Faulkner

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