What is the Snopes trilogy by William Faulkner?

The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels by William Faulkner that chronicles the rise and eventual dissolution of the rapacious Snopes family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The trilogy serves as a dramatization of the social and economic disintegration of the American South following the Civil War, contrasting the manipulative, "poor white" Snopes clan with the fading traditional gentry, such as the Sartoris family.1234

The three volumes are:

• The Hamlet (1940): Depicts the early years of the manipulative Flem Snopes as he begins his ascent to power in Frenchman’s Bend.15
• The Town (1957): Details Flem’s rise to prominence in the county seat of Jefferson and his efforts to distance himself from his shiftless relatives.42
• The Mansion (1959): Concludes the trilogy, focusing on the final downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his cousin, Mink Snopes, and his stepdaughter, Linda.23