Absalom, Absalom!

Description:

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."

subjects: Fiction,  Plantation life,  Sutpen family (Fictitious characters),  Facsimiles,  Textual Criticism,  American Manuscripts,  Sutpen family (Fictitious character),  American Historical fiction,  American fiction,  Manuscripts,  Yaknapatawpha County (Imaginary place),  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction,  Plantation life -- Fiction,  Mississippi -- Fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Mississippi, fiction,  Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, family life,  Sutpen family (fictitious characters), fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, historical, general,  Life Style,  Fictional works

People: William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Places: Mississippi

Times: 20th century