Absalom, Absalom! / Faulkner, William

Parable of the founding, glory, and decay of the South as Thomas Sutpen aspires to Southern aristocracy, and fails.

Harvard freshman Quentin Compson tries to piece together the strange story of Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter whose plans to build a dynasty in Mississippi in 1833 go tragically wrong.

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.