Main Title: As I Lay Dying
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Author: Faulkner, William
First Published: 1930
Publisher Used for Citing: Vintage
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.


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