Absalom, Absalom! (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML271)

xii, 7-378, [16] pp. 8vo. Includes introduction by Harvey Breit. Chronology, genealogy, and map of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha Co., Mississippi follow text. A novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. "Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, with the focus of the story on the life of Thomas Sutpen."