As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner's 1930 masterpiece of Southern Gothic modernism, narrated in turn by fifteen voices — including, famously, one chapter from beyond the grave — as the Bundren family hauls their mother's coffin across the flooded Mississippi countryside to fulfill her dying wish: burial in the town of Jefferson.

This is a U.S. public-domain edition (entered the public domain in the United States in 2026, 95 years after first publication). It may still be under copyright in other countries.