Study Tools

Overview

Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1936. The novel is a story within a story: it is narrated nonlinearly, in flashbacks, by Quentin Compson to his Harvard roommate, Shreve, and is about Thomas Sutpen, a poor white man who rises to wealth and power in the antebellum South, only to see his family destroyed by his own pride and ambition. The narrator, Quentin, is a main character in another Faulkner novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929). Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

Read the full book summary and a complete list of character descriptions from Absalom, Absalom!

Upgrade to PLUS and get instant access to all the study tools

Upgrade to PLUS and get instant access to all the study tools

Purchase

Go to BN.com to get your copy of these helpful resources.