While I’m aware that Faulkner did have his own eccentricities about punctuation, these errors were definitely from the ebook portion.
Timeless Literature did a fairly poor job of formatting this book for its e-edition, with random, lost quote marks and missing punctuation.
This is going to turn into a fairly long review, with multiple quotes and considerations, but in short, I would say that I really did enjoy the book (though my partner, N J, did not, and we are writing these reviews concurrently. …Obviously, university-style readings will never go out of style in this household, haha. So, in addition to purchasing the Timeless Literature Collection’s edition of the text, I also downloaded the Random House audiobook ( here, on Youtube), and Robert Crayola’s As I Lay Dying: A Reader’s Guide to the William Faulkner Novel (which I do highly recommend). Much like when I read all of Edgar Allan Poe‘s works, there was no way I could dive into As I Lay Dying without understanding the context of the work, and the author himself. So, when a book club I recently joined decided to read him in celebration of the club’s initiation, I got pretty excited. My knowledge of him stopped at “his typewriter is famous.” I am always looking for a good excuse to read at the classics, and Faulkner has been one of those writers that I have often seen quoted, but I’ve never read personally.
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