As I Lay Dying

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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Dying87.jpg</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Cover of As I Lay Dying</td></tr> <tr><th>Genre(s)</th><td>Novel, Historical Fiction</td></tr> <tr><th>Media Type</th><td>Print (hardcover, paperback, & library binding) & audio cassette</td></tr><tr><th>Pages</th><td>288 pp (paperback edition)</td></tr><tr><th>ISBN</th><td>ISBN 067973225X</td></tr>

**As I Lay Dying**
Author	William Faulkner
Publisher
Released	1930

As I Lay Dying is a novel published in 1930 and written by American author William Faulkner. The novel, which Faulkner himself referred to as a "tour de force", was the author's fifth and is read in many schools and colleges across the United States, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking countries. The title comes from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey when Agamemnon is speaking to Odysseus "As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." Faulkner would often recite this quote from memory.