Absalom, Absalom! - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.


• Two maps and five other images.


• A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully arranged to draw readers into the American South of William Faulkner's imagination. Topics include "Contemporary Reception," "The Writer and His Work," and "Historical Contexts."


• Seventeen critical essays on the novel's major themes, from classic literary critiques to recent scholarship on, among other topics, race, gender, and the environment.


• A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the author

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, among other works. These two novels were originally published by Liveright in the 1920s.

Product details

• Authors: William Faulkner, Faulkner William
• Assisted by: Susan Scott Parrish (Editor), Parrish Susan Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2023
• EAN: 9780393422580
• ISBN: 978-0-393-42258-0
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 216 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 602 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literature: history and criticism