โ Scribed by William Faulkner
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax.
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a black butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children, his own troop to fight in the Civil War... but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing. Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.
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Following three families in the American South before, during, and after the Civil War, William Faulkner' s _Absalom, Absalom!_ tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, whose dreams of a prosperous life as a landowner and patriarch ultimately lead to his downfall. Narrated in flashbacks by Rosa Coldfield,
"Read, read, read. Read everything?trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You?ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you?ll find out. If it?s not, throw it out the window."?William Faulkner?Absalom, Absa
"Read, read, read. Read everything?trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You?ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you?ll find out. If it?s not, throw it out the window."?William Faulkner?Absalom, Absa
"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner _Abs
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