Absalom, Absalom! (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Segregation or integration, Family or family life, Genealogy, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Adultery
- Locales: Virginia, Haiti, Mississippi, West Virginia, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Quentin Compson, shortly before he goes to Harvard University where (according to The Sound and the Fury) he will commit suicide after his first year, learns from Rosa Coldfield and his father much of the story of Thomas Sutpen.
Sutpen appeared at Jefferson more than 20 years before the Civil War, quickly established a vast plantation, and married and fathered two children.
When his daughter, Judith, grew up, she was courted by Charles Bon, friend of her brother, Henry. Sutpen forbade them to marry and, as a result, Henry rejected his father. The boys soon joined...
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