An edition of Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
Absalom, Absalom!
By William Faulkner
Publish Date
1951
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Language
eng
Pages
378
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."
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People: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Places: Mississippi
Times: 20th century