FAULKNER, William
Absalom, Absalom!
London, Chatto and Windus, 1936
8vo, publisher’s cloth, 384 pp.; nice copy, light soiling to boards, without dust jacket
First Uk edition of one of Faulkner’s best-known works, published in the s+ame year as the first American edition. Illustrated with a folding map to the rear. ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ tells the epic generational story of three families and is considered a classic of the Southern Gothic genre which sets the mystery, mayhem, and family curses of Gothic fiction in America’s Deep South. A masterpiece of modernist literature for its uses of flashback, inner monologue and multiple narrators, it’s a novel that looks at the relationship between past and present and, in particular, what responsibility we bear for the actions of our ancestors.
