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 NERFINISHED
belongsToCanon American literature
containsMotif power and money
respectability versus corruption
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts life in a small Southern town
rise of a ruthless businessman
featuresCharacter Eula Varner Snopes NERFINISHED
Flem Snopes NERFINISHED
Gavin Stevens NERFINISHED
Ratliff NERFINISHED
V. K. Ratliff NERFINISHED
fictionalCounty Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED
followedBy The Mansion NERFINISHED
follows The Hamlet NERFINISHED
form prose fiction
genre Southern Gothic NERFINISHED
modernist fiction
hasPerspective multiple viewpoints
hasPrequel The Hamlet NERFINISHED
hasSequel The Mansion NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement American modernism
mainCharacter Flem Snopes NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativeFocus rise of Flem Snopes
narrativeStyle complex chronology
shifting perspectives
partOf Snopes trilogy NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1952
publisher Random House NERFINISHED
series Snopes trilogy NERFINISHED
setInPeriod early 20th-century American South
setting Jefferson, Mississippi (fictional town) NERFINISHED
Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED

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