Flags in the Dust.
FAULKNER, William.
Flags in the Dust.
First edition of William Faulkner's Flags in the Dust
New York: Random House, 1973.
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First edition of this pleasant introduction to the characters of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, topstain orange. Introduction by the editor Douglas Day. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Karl. A splendid example.
William Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust follows the decline of the Sartoris family, symbolizing the fading Old South in post-World War I Mississippi. Centered on Bayard Sartoris, haunted by his twin brother’s death in the war, and his grandfather, Colonel John Sartoris, clinging to Confederate ideals, the novel explores themes of loss, memory, and change. Set in Yoknapatawpha County, it portrays a South struggling with modernity and its past. Though initially rejected and later shortened as Sartoris, the full version showcases Faulkner’s early mastery of complex characters and themes.
