Absalom, Absalom! vs Sanctuary: Which Should You Read?

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner · 1936 ★★★★☆ 4.1 321 pages · ≈ 5 h 57 m · Demanding

“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 alway”

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…

Sanctuary William Faulkner · 1931 ★★★★☆ 3.6 312 pages · ≈ 5 h 47 m · Challenging

Lee Goodwin es acusado de asesinato. El escenario del crimen es una casa oculta entre los árboles que alberga una destilería ilegal. Allí viven, entre otros, Ruby, una mujer que ha renunciado a todo por Lee, y Popeye,…