William Faulkner

William Faulkner was one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century, whose experimental, complex fiction transformed the art of the novel and earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. His novel Absalom, Absalom!, published in 1936, is widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the most important novels in American literature. The book tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, a poor white man who arrives in Mississippi in the 1830s determined to build a dynasty, and whose ambitions set in motion a chain of events spanning generations and touching on race, class, obsession, incest and the legacy of slavery in the American South. Faulkner's narrative technique is deliberately complex, with the story told and retold by multiple narrators whose differing perspectives reveal the impossibility of ever fully knowing the past. Born in Mississippi in 1897, Faulkner set most of his fiction in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, creating a richly imagined world that served as a microcosm of Southern and American experience. He died in 1962. The audiobook brings his demanding, magnificent prose to listeners who appreciate the highest achievements of literary fiction.