This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax.
Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.. but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing.
His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children, his own troop to fight in the Civil War...
From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society.
As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a black butler.
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen.
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax
