Flags in the Dust is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing about 40,000 words in the process. That version was published as Sartoris in 1929. Faulkner's original manuscript of Flags in the Dust was …
Two collections of early poems by William Faulkner; a sonnet sequence dedicated to his sweetheart, Helen Baird, c. 1925; and "Mississippi Poems," c. 1926, which were typed for Faulkner at the law office of his mentor, Phil Stone. Each section has a separate scholarly introduction; "Helen: A Courtship," intro. by …
A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.From the Trade Paperback edition.