by William Faulkner · ISBN 9788437640921
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Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by American writer William Faulkner, published in 1936. The story focuses on Thomas Sutpen and his ambitious attempt to found a dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in the mid-nineteenth century. Through multiple narrators, the novel explores themes of race, class, family, and the weight of the past on the present. The work is considered one of Faulkner's most important and of American literature.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
