Authors:Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk,
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: absalom, faulkner, reading
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1604735783
ISBN-13: 9781604735789

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner’s most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, 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." On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the entire Sutpen family and that tragedy’s legacy that continues well into the twentieth century and beyond. The novel’s intricate,

Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: absalom, text, corrected
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 1990-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679732187
ISBN-13: 9780679732181

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."

Author: W.K. Thomas
Publisher: Laurier (Wilfrid) University Press
Keywords: achitophel, absalom, crafting
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 1979-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889200599
ISBN-13: 9780889200593

Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: achitophel, absalom
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419104535
ISBN-13: 9781419104534

Not So The Rest; For Several Mothers Bore To Godlike David, Several Sons Before. But Since Like Slaves His Bed They Did Ascend, No True Succession Could Their Seed Attend. Of All This Numerous Progeny Was None So Beautifull, So Brave As Absalon.

Author: Alexs D. Pate
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: absalom, losing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1566891701
ISBN-13: 9781566891707

Sonny Goodman may have hopped the “modern underground railroad called education” and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family’s dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves. Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate’s highly abs

Author: Master Lazarus DelaCruz
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: absalom
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2007-08-14
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1602667233
ISBN-13: 9781602667235

Absalom’s rebellion against king David his father is one of the most unhappy events in the history of the people of Israel. It is recorded in the second book of Samuel chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18. King David had already experienced numerous trials and troubles in his earlier life due to the jealousy of king Saul, and because of the constant warfare he had to do against many enemies of Israel. Yet none of those events were as painful and devastating for him as the rebellion of his beloved son, and his subsequent tragic death. The pain and lamentation of David was misunderstood by his