FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with
this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases,
restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes)
expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be
read.
In these four novels we can track Faulkner's extraordinary evolution as, over
the course of a few years, he discovers and masters the mode and matter of his
greatest works. Soldiers' Pay (1926) expresses the disillusionment provoked by
World War I through its account of the postwar experiences of homecoming
soldiers, including a