William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!was published today in 1936. It is the sixth of the Yoknapatawpha novels, a series which began to appear in 1929 and continued for the next three decades. The first edition of the novel formally establis

hed Faulkner’s claim to his imaginative territory, in that it came with a Chronology, a Genealogy and a map showing key locations and events involved in the regional saga — and a notation that Faulkner was the “sole owner and proprietor” of all he surveyed.

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