From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that -- a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
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Absalão, Absalão!
Nov 13, 2019, Companhia das Letras
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Absolon, Absolon / Absalom, Absalom
May 2004, Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)
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Absalom, Absalom
Sep 18, 2002, Books on Tape / Random House, Inc.
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Absalon, Absalon!
February 22, 2000, Gallimard
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Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage Classics)
January 19, 1995, Vintage
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Absalom, Absalom!: the corrected text
1993, Modern Library
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Absalom, Absalom!: the corrected text
1990, Vintage Books
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1987, Garland Pub.
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Absalon! Absalon! Traduit de l'anglais par R.-N. Raimbault avec la collaboration de Ch.-P. Vorce.
1967, Gallimard
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Absalom, Absalom!
April 1, 1966, McGraw-Hill
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