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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936 · 378 pages
FictionPlantation lifeSutpen family (Fictitious characters)FacsimilesTextual CriticismAmerican Manuscripts
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson 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."
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