Go Down, Moses

by William Faulkner; Thomas L. McHaney

GO DOWN, MOSES is a cycle of seven interrelated episodes (including the much-anthologized story, "The Bear") examining the complex, changing relationships among the descendents of the McCaslin family in Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, in northern Mississippi. The novel recounts the early days of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, and continues through the lives of his many descendants, both black and white, in a noteworthy exploration of race and miscegenation, and of the impact on the rural population of the South's vanishing wilderness.

Editions of Go Down, Moses

ISBN 9780679732174	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 1991	Price $4.71	Very Good
ISBN 9780394718842	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 1973	Price $1.00	Used - Good
ISBN 9780822005377	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc	Date 1986	Price $1.85	Good
ISBN 9780394426464	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1942	Price $25.55
ISBN 9780679601746	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1995	Price $6.50	Good
ISBN 9780824068226	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Routledge	Date 1987	Price None Available

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"In 'Go Down, Moses', Faulkner comes most passionately to grips with the moral implications of slavery, the American land, progress and materialism, tradition and moral identity--all major themes of the American novel."

First Line

Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike,' past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated any more, a widower now and uncle to half a county and father to no one.

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