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

It must have been like a piece of rotten cheese coming into an ant-hill, in that ramshackle wagon that Albert said folds were scared would fall all to pieces before they could get it out of town ….


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