Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom!

Author: William Faulkner

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2008

Synopsis

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.

Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." His tragedy left its impress not only on his contemporaries but also on men who came after, men like Quentin Compson, haunted even into the 20th century by Sutpen's legacy of ruthlessness and singleminded disregard for the human community.

About The Author

WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other  remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on June 19, 2024

Absalom, Absalom! is a full of dark secrets and murky mysteries ghost story – the ghosts of the past rise and follow everyone everywhere. All the human vices rotate around the procreative instinct... And the male instinct of procreation rotates around woman... ...the other sex is separated into three s......more

Goodreads review by Tom on November 23, 2019

Apologies for previously having some snobbery in this review that I wrote 10 years ago which I have now edited. In the interim 10 years I have had children and now have to read books about cat mermaids so karma has bit my ass aggressively. Let’s just enjoy this: “. . . and opposite Quentin, Miss Col......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 24, 2015

The picture above was used on the first edition dust jacket published in 1936 by Random House. It is the image I had in my mind of Sutpen's Hundred the plantation built by Thomas Sutpen. The hundred stands for a 100 square miles, the geographic size of the plantation. 100 square miles of land is......more

Goodreads review by Henry on March 27, 2024

A great writer William Faulkner was, winner of the Nobel Prize yet not an easy read....This novel the name comes from the Bible could be his best, shows this. Seemingly just another southern Gothic book with erratic flashback after flashback revealing the truth ...layer by layer maybe, set both befo......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on October 18, 2015

Absalom, Absalom!--William Faulkner's Novel of the Death of the Old South Considered by many Faulkner scholars to be his masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom! was read by goodreads group "On the Southern Literary Trail" in April, 2012. And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the ga......more

Quotes

“For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner’s works] are without equal in our time and country.” —Robert Penn Warren
 
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.... Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.” —Ralph Ellison

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