Skei: Hans H.: A Little Lost Village. Reading William Faulkner's The HamletThis study of William Faulkners The Hamlet (1940) offers * extensive discussions of the textual history of the work, * a survey of previous criticism, * an understanding of the book as a novel and not a loose collection of revised stories. * a chapter by chapter reading based on modern theories of how we read * in the midst of it all is the community of Frenchmans Bend the little lost village virtually a central character in the novel as it sees its