Absalom, Absalom!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 Stories One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. 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. “Faulkner’s novels have the quality of being lived, absorbed, remembered rather than merely observed,” noted Malcolm Cowley. “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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 28 |
Section 3 | 58 |
Section 4 | 90 |
Section 5 | 133 |
Section 6 | 138 |
Section 7 | 177 |
Section 8 | 178 |
Section 12 | 389 |
Section 13 | 391 |
Section 14 | 392 |
Section 15 | 393 |
Section 16 | 395 |
Section 17 | 396 |
Section 18 | 400 |
Section 19 | 401 |
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