Flags in the Dust

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Flags in the Dust is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. It is the first novel set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 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 published in 1973, and Sartoris was subsequently taken out of print.

Preceded by none

Novels set in Yoknapatawpha County

Succeeded by The Sound and the Fury

v • d • e Novels by William Faulkner Novels: Soldiers' Pay • Mosquitoes • Sartoris / Flags in the Dust • The Sound and the Fury • As I Lay Dying • Sanctuary • Light in August • Pylon • Absalom, Absalom! • The Unvanquished • If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) •The Hamlet • Go Down, Moses • Intruder in the Dust • Requiem for a Nun • A Fable • The Town • The Mansion • The Reivers