Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! Introduction by Harvey Breit.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Modern Library [1951]
Series:The Modern library of the world's best books, 271
Subjects:
Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) > Fiction.
Plantation life > Mississippi > Fiction.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Description
Summary: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."
Physical Description:xii, 378 pages 19 cm.

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