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Excerpt
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."
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
United States
Topics from Open Library
Subjects
- Fiction
- Plantation life
- Sutpen family (Fictitious characters)
- Facsimiles
- Textual Criticism
- American Manuscripts
- Sutpen family (Fictitious character)
- American Historical fiction
- American fiction
- Manuscripts
People
- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Times & places
- 20th century