The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels written by

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...

regarding the Snopes family in the fictional

Yoknapatawpha County Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faul ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

.John B. Padgett
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William Faulkner on the Web, October 9, 2000. Retrieved on May 7, 2008. "Snopes: One of the most pernicious families in all of Faulkner.... the seemingly endless number of Snopes who parade through Faulkner’s fiction, most especially in the Snopes trilogy (the novels ''The Hamlet'', ''The Town'', and ''The Mansion'')...." It consists of ''

The Hamlet ''The Hamlet'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. Originally a standalone novel, it was later followed by '' The Town'' (1957), and '' The Mansion'' (1959), ...

'', '' The Town'', and '' The Mansion''. It was begun in 1940 and completed in 1959.From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901–1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969. Reprinted a
"William Faulkner: Biography"
Nobel Foundation, 1949. Retrieved May 7, 2008. "In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, ''The Hamlet'', to be followed by two volumes, ''The Town'' (1957) and ''The Mansion'' (1959), all of them tracing the rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the community."

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Works by William Faulkner Literary trilogies {{1900s-novel-stub