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Absalom, Absalom!
Title
Absalom, Absalom! / by William Faulkner ; introduction by Harvey Breit.
Publication
New York : Modern Library, [between 1951 and 1963]
Copyright Notice Date
©1951
Physical Description
xii, 378 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : map ; 19 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z41 0122: With dust jacket, circa 1952 (based on list of titles printed inside jacket). Bookplate of George Thomas Tanselle. Publisher's advertisements (list of Modern Library titles) on 8 unnumbered pages at end, not noted in extent.
Notes
"Manufactured in the United States of America; Printed by Parkway Printing Company; Bound by H. Wolff"--Title page verso.
Dust jacket design signed "PG" by Paul Galdone.
Summary
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."
Other formats
Also issued online.
Online version: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Absalom, Absalom! New York, Modern Library [1951]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
The modern library of the world's best books ; [no. 271]
Bibliography
Chronology, genealogy and map follow page 378 on 7 unnumbered pages.
References
Neavill, G. B. Bibliography of The Modern Library, 1925-1959, 434
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Domestic fiction.
Novels
Historical fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Historical fiction.
Publishers’ advertisements.
Also listed under
Modern Library (Firm), publisher.
Parkway Printing Company, printer.
H. Wolff, Inc., binder.
United States New York (State) New York.
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