“Another Southern Gothic work of genius from William Faulkner, with particular emphasis on the Gothic. Cracking the cover of “Absalom, Absalom!” is like stepping into a haunted house, so full of ghosts is this novel, which prefigures “Citizen Kane” in the way it burrows through murky layers of history, gossip, and lore to illuminate the mystery of the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, powerful plantation owner and patriarch of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner’s prose was...”

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