“Absalom, Absalom! is structurally the soundest of all the novels in the Yoknapatawpha series-and it gains power in retrospect.” This edition follows the text of Absalom, Absalom! as corrected in 1986 under the direction of Faulkner expert Noel Polk and features a new Foreword by John Jeremiah Sullivan.

“Faulkner’s novels have the quality of being lived, absorbed, remembered rather than merely observed,” noted Malcolm Cowley. Although his grand design is ultimately destroyed by his own sons, a century later the figure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Quentin Compson, who is obsessed with his family legacy and that of the Old South. is now available in a corrected text Vintage Edition. The Library of America edition of Faulkners work publishes for the first time new, corrected texts of The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and The. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who comes to.

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected Short Storiesįirst published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired.

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