The Mansion (novel)

The Mansion  

1st edition cover
Author(s) William Faulkner
Country United States
Language English
Series Snopes trilogy
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Random House
Publication date 1959
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 452
ISBN 0394702824
OCLC Number 2572834
Preceded by The Town

The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, written in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following The Hamlet and The Town. It charts the plotted downfall of Flem Snopes by his relative Mink Snopes in part aided by Flem's deaf, veteran daughter, Linda Snopes.

Themes

Like the other works in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, The Mansion deals with the South's displaced economic landscape after the end of the Civil War, rural populism, and racial and social tensions.

See also

Preceded by
The Town
Novels set in Yoknapatawpha County Succeeded by
The Reivers