Absalom, Absalom!
William, William Faulkner The narrative of Thomas Sutpen, an intriguing stranger who arrived in Jefferson township in the early 1830s, is told in Absalom, Absalom! He pulled a beautiful estate out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness with the help of a French architect and a gang of wild Haitians.
"He wanted sons, and the sons devastated him, " Faulker observed of Sutpen. Sutpen's ruthlessness and single-minded disregard for the human community h...