Absalom, Absalom!

About this book

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

  • american fiction
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american historical fiction
  • american manuscripts
  • facsimiles
  • families
  • fiction
  • fictional works
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • large type books
  • life style
  • long now manual for civilization
  • manuscripts
  • mississippi -- fiction
  • mississippi, fiction
  • plantation life
  • plantation life -- fiction
  • sutpen family (fictitious character)
  • sutpen family (fictitious characters)
  • sutpen family (fictitious characters) -- fiction
  • sutpen family (fictitious characters), fiction
  • textual criticism
  • yaknapatawpha county (imaginary place)
  • yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction