Read As I Lay Dying

Read As I Lay Dying

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A family carries their mother's coffin across Mississippi in fifty-nine monologues; "my mother is a fish".

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Classic1.1k Literary Fiction141 Mississippi10 Nobel Prize55 William Faulkner2

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Read As I Lay Dying

Published in New York by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. Designer uncredited. · Public domain

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Bucket Itemby Darek Woźniakcreated 2026-09-07

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