Eventually the mysterious pregnancy of Eula Varner leads her to marry Flem Snopes and move with him to Jefferson.
The final text of this novel incorporates several earlier short stories, including one in which Buck Hipps joins with the protagonist to auction horses in front of Littlejohn's Hotel, another about Herman Short selling Beasley Kemp a horse for eight dollars, and one about the main character's father Ab burning down barns. The protagonist hires his cousin I.O. to run his blacksmithy after extorting a job in a store and inflates the value of an estate by burying coins to drive up the bids of Henry Armstid, Odum Bookwright, and V.K. Ratliff. Eventually the mysterious pregnancy of Eula Varner leads her to marry Flem Snopes and move with him to Jefferson. For ten points, name this Faulkner novel set in Frenchman's Bend, the titular Yoknapatawpha County community.
The final text of this novel incorporates several earlier short stories, including one in which Buck Hipps joins with the protagonist to auction horses in front of Littlejohn's Hotel, another about Herman Short selling Beasley Kemp a horse for eight dollars, and one about the main character's father Ab burning down barns.
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