"Publisher's note: This edition follows the text of Flags in the Dust as corrected in 2006 by Noel Polk. An editors' note on the corrections by Noel Polk follows the text; the line and page notes were prepared by Joseph Blotner."
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In 1919, young Bayard Sartoris returns to Yoknapatawpha from the war. But unlike his heroic Civil War great grandfather and great uncle, Sartoris' war experiences leave him aimless and bitter, a walking casualty of how the lost ideals and abiding memory of the ante-bellum South have crippled the present.
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"The complete text, published for the first time in 1973, of Faulkner's third novel, written when he was twenty-nine, which appeared, with his reluctant consent, in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris."--Page 4 of cover.