num_pages: 384
description: Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.
language: English
title: Absalom! Absalom!
titlecomplete: Absalom! Absalom!
characters: Ellen Coldfield, Charles Bon, Judith Sutpen, Quentin Compson III, Jason Compson III, Rosa Coldfield, Shreve, Thomas Sutpen, Wash Jones, Henry Sutpen, Jim Bond
genres: Fiction, American, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 43565
places: Mississippi, The United States of America, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
publisher: Vintage