487 pages
English language
Published 1987 by Garland Pub..
Absalom, Absalom!
typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material William Faulkner manuscripts ;
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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."
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
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. -- Criticism, Textual
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
- Historical fiction, American -- Criticism, Textual
- Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
- Manuscripts, American -- Facsimiles
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction