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4.5 · 378 pages · First published 1936
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."
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Subjects
FictionPlantation lifeSutpen family (Fictitious characters)FacsimilesTextual CriticismAmerican ManuscriptsSutpen family (Fictitious character)American Historical fictionAmerican fictionManuscriptsYaknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)Long Now Manual for CivilizationSutpen family (Fictitious characters) -- FictionPlantation life -- FictionMississippi -- FictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Mississippi, fictionYoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fictionFiction, historicalFiction, family life
- Publishers
- Chatto & Windus, Books on Tape / Random House, Inc., G.K. Hall, Independently Published, Cátedra, Rowohlt Taschenbuch
- Languages
- por, gre, fre, spa, eng