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In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in literature: 1,228 words.
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Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy.  Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters.  [[Liberal]]s like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in ''As I Lay Dying''.
 
Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy.  Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters.  [[Liberal]]s like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in ''As I Lay Dying''.
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"Absalom, Absalom!" is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written.
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''Absalom, Absalom!'' is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in literature: 1,228 words.<ref>http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html</ref>
    
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married but a decade later divorced another man.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref>
 
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married but a decade later divorced another man.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref>
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