Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

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Original publication date

1936

Important places

Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, USA

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Quentin Compson

Shreve McCannon

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 36)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (58)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits (32)

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From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat is what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394717805, Paperback)

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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