Absalom, Absalom!, William FaulknerQuentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past

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Investigative reporter Gus Russo returns with his most explosive book yet

and our place in the natural world

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They elevated Bomber Command - initially the only part of the Allied war effort capable of attacking the heart of Nazi Germany - from an impotent force on the cusp of disintegration in 1942 to one capable of razing whole German cities to the ground in a single night

and with employees being honest about their own career aspirations

Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification

As the underworld's primary link to the corporate upperworld

then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit

unchanging truths

When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach

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