Absalom, Absalom!
FictionPlantation lifeSutpen family (Fictitious characters)FacsimilesTextual Criticism
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From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that -- a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was alway…
About this book
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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FictionPlantation lifeSutpen family (Fictitious characters)FacsimilesTextual CriticismAmerican Manuscripts
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Mississippi20th century
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William Faulkner
25 September 1897 – 6 July 1962
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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