Absalom, Absalom!
(Books)

"The text of this edition of Absalom, Absalom! is reproduced photographically from a copy of the first printing. Publication date was October 26, 1936"--Title page verso.

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." Faulkner's classic 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, is now available in a corrected text Vintage Edition.,Sin and Salvation is a series of Southern literature by American author William Faulkner. The series is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi and takes place following World War I. The books in the series are consistently ranked among the best and most important novels of the 20th century. The Sin and Salvation series began in 1929 with Sartoris and ended in 1951 with Requiem for a Nun.