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Faulkner, William
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01-01-1963
Comment On Absalom, Absalom!, Essay Questions and Critical Opinion

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As should now be apparent to the student, Absalom, Absalom! can be read
on more than one level. It is an exciting, gripping story of crime and
bloodshed, of intrigue and mystery, with no questions finally answered until
almost the last page. It is a tenderly moving love story, of a handsome
Byronic hero, whose fate is darker than even that awaiting the romantic poet's
heroes, Conrad and Manfred and Cain. It is an adaptation of a Biblical story
of a king who mourned for his dead son crying, "Absalom, O my son Absalom!
Would I had died in thy stead!" At the same time it is a kind ...

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