โ Scribed by Faulkner, William
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 316 pages
Published 1936
First Vintage International (1990), eBook (2011)
McCaffery 100 Greatest English Fiction
Radcliffe's 100 Best English Novels
"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, Absalom! is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, 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."
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?
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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
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"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