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Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. The Sound and the Fury was William Faulkner's fourth published novel and deals with four days in the lives of the Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulker reveals the story instead of telling it, as a standard plot line would, and he makes use of disordered fragments organized in blatant disregard of conventions of linear calendar and clock time.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Dashiell Hammett began writing in 1922 and was one of many mystery writers in America at that time. However, he was the most accomplished and his experiences as a Pinkerton detective brought realism to his mystery fiction. The Maltese Falcon, as well as many of his other works, are mysteries of lasting literary worth.

Literary Masters is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics). Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author and covers basic biographical information. Theodore Dreiser grew up in dysfunctional family with an overly strict, religious father and a mother who could always find "the silver lining". As a result, many of Dreiser's novels signal the diminished role of religious belief among most Americans at the time (1911-1940).

Literary Masters is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics). Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author and covers basic biographical information. William Faulkner based his writing on what he knew--his memories of family, both the good and the bad, and the people and places he knew growing up in the South.