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Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

Novel by William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of... Wikipedia
Originally published: 1936
Genres: Novel, Southern Gothic, Historical Fiction, and more
Cover artist: George Salter
Pages: 384

Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War ...
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Absalom, Absalom! is a full of dark secrets and murky mysteries ghost story – the ghosts of the past rise and follow you everywhere. All the human vices turn ...
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This is a dark, convoluted, complex novel written in a stream of consciousness text that can easily confuse and scare the casual reader away. For the serious ...
In Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner devotes his mature powers to a full spectrum examination of man's reliance on the past and of the extent to which man is ...
The story is burned into his brain the night he goes with Miss Rosa to the Sutpen plantation, where they find Henry Sutpen— now an old man—waiting to die.
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one.
The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about ...
The novel is a story within a story: it is narrated nonlinearly, in flashbacks, by Quentin Compson to his Harvard roommate, Shreve, and is about Thomas Sutpen, ...
Absalom, Absalom!, novel by American writer William Faulkner, published in 1936. The principal narrative, set in 19th-century Mississippi, involves Thomas ...