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Family & Heritage

Sagas of lineage, tradition, and the ties that bind generations.

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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The decline of the Compson family in the American South is narrated four times from different perspectives, including that of Benjy, a man with an intellectual disability, and told through extreme shifts in chronology. Faulkner's breakthrough novel.
United States 1929
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Two families in California's Salinas Valley across several generations re-enact the Cain and Abel story. Steinbeck called it his magnum opus and the book he had been preparing to write his whole life.
United States 1952
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