Absalom, Absalom!

author
William Faulkner

plot synopsis in 50 words or fewer
An intense family drama set in Mississippi in the 1800's and 1900's. Told in Faulkner's standard dense and intricate prose, Absalom, Absalom! is a formative discussion of race and gender, and deals heavily with the ways our choices carry forward to future generations.

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some other things this author has written
Novels
Soldiers Pay (1926)
Mosquitoes (1927)
Sartoris (1929)
The Sound And the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Light in August (1931)
Sanctuary (1931)
Pylon (1935)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
The Unvanquished (1938)
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939)
aka The Wild Palms
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Requiem for a Nun (1951)
A Fable (1954)
The Reivers (1962)
Flags in the Dust (1973)

Collections
These 13 (1931)
Doctor Martino: And Other Stories (1934)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
The Portable Faulkner (1946)
Knight's Gambit (1949)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950)
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (1955)
New Orleans Sketches (1958)
Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (1961)
The Wishing Tree (1964)
A Faulkner Miscellany (1974)
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979)