William Faulkner Novels Reading Order

About Absalom Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is generally considered William Faulkner's greatest novel — the story of Thomas Sutpen's rise and fall in antebellum Mississippi, told through multiple narrators who are attempting to reconstruct events that none of them fully witnessed. One of the most formally challenging and most rewarding works in the American literary canon, it demands patient reading and repays it with the most complete vision of the American South in fiction.