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William Faulkner.As I Lay Dying.New

York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison

Smith, 193.

Faulkner said in his "Introduction" to the 1932

Modern Library publication of Sanctuarythat". . . I wroteAs I Lay Dyingin six weeks

without chan!in! a word." Later he said he

could do this because he knew fro the first

how the catastrophes of flood and fire would

affect the #undren faily. $e had written

soe of the tale in the short stories of "Father

%braha" and "&ler" and his thees of e'il

and the folly of en were siilar to those he

had probed before. (he holo!raph anuscript

also re'eals an ease in creation unlike his

other no'els) fewer canceled passa!esar!inal inserts and paste*ins. (he title pa!e

is dated +ctober 2, 1929 and by -anuary 12

193 the typescript was ready to ail to

publisher $arrison /ith.

William Faulkner.As I Lay Dying.

!Harmondsworth, "n#land$:

%en#uin &ooks, 19'3.

(he co'er of this edition is particularly

effecti'e in suari0in! both plot and

character. %ddie #undren has died and her

faily is cartin! her coffin to -efferson to be

buried with her people. (he acabre funeral

ourney faces natural catastrophes of flood and

fire as well as an intense faily stru!!le. $er

husband %nse and her children 4ash 5arl

-ewel 5ewey 5ell and 6ardaan all ha'e

their own a!endas as they tra'el toward the

burial. 4ash akes the coffin and carries his

tools with hi7 -ewel8s treasured horse ser'es

se'eral sybolic functions in the story7 and

they tra'el coffin and all in a wa!on drawn

by a tea of ules.

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William Faulkner.As I Lay Dying: The

Corrected Text. New York: (inta#e

&ooks, 19)*.

(he publisher $arrison /ith recei'ed

Faulkner8s typescript forAs I Lay Dyingin-anuary 193 and published it with 'ery few

editorial chan!es on +ctober 193. (hat text

reained the sae throu!h 'arious reprints

until 19: when ;ando $ouse brou!ht out a

new edition that was corrected in accordance

with the ori!inal anuscript and typescript. For

the "corrected text" shown here scholar