Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." His tragedy left its impress not only on his contemporaries but also on men who came after, men like Quentin Compson, haunted even into the 20th century by Sutpen's legacy of ruthlessness and singleminded disregard for the human community.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
ISBN
0679732187 / 9780679732181
Pages
313
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1936