The Hamlet: A Novel of the Snopes Family

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The Hamlet: A Novel of the Snopes Family is William Faulkner’s 1940 novel that inaugurates his Snopes trilogy, depicting the rise of the unscrupulous Snopes clan in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

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instanceOf novel
alsoKnownAs The Hamlet
author William Faulkner
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts changing social order in the South
economic exploitation
rural Southern community
focusesOn rise of the Snopes family
followedBy The Mansion
The Town
follows none (first in series)
genre Southern Gothic
modernist fiction
hasAuthorNationality American
hasCharacterGroup Snopes family
Varner family
hasFictionalLocation Frenchman’s Bend
hasPageCountApprox 400
hasSequel The Mansion
The Town
hasSubject family dynamics
power and manipulation
rural capitalism
literaryCanonStatus major work of William Faulkner
literaryMovement American modernism
mainCharacter Ab Snopes
Eula Varner
Flem Snopes
Will Varner
narrativeForm multi-perspective narrative
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Snopes trilogy
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationYear 1940
publisher Random House
seriesPosition first novel in the Snopes trilogy
setInPeriod late 19th century American South
setting Yoknapatawpha County
fictional Mississippi county
theme class conflict in the American South
corruption
greed
social ambition

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The Hamlet hasAlternativeTitle The Hamlet: A Novel of the Snopes Family