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LIGHT IN AUGUST
WILLIAM FAULKNER
VINTAGE BOOKS
A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE/NEW YORK
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William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST
VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 1972
Copyright 1932, by William Faulkner
Copyright Renewed 1959 by William Faulkner
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States
by Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed in Canada by
Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published by
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in 1932.
ISBN: 0-394-71189-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-12716
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The text of this edition of Light in August has been photographed from, and is therefore identical
with, a copy of the first printing. Publication date was October 6, 1932.
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William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST
Contents
Contents 4
Chapter 1 5
Chapter 2 16
Chapter 3 26
Chapter 4 34
Chapter 5 44
Chapter 6 51
Chapter 7 62
Chapter 8 71
Chapter 9 83
Chapter 10 91
Chapter 11 96
Chapter 12 105
Chapter 13 117
Chapter 14 130
Chapter 15 138
Chapter 16 147
Chapter 17 159
Chapter 18 168
Chapter 19 179
Chapter 20 188
Chapter 21 199
About the Author 205
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Chapter 1
SITTING beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I e
from Alabama: a fur piece. All the way from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece.’ Thinking although I
have not been quite a month on the road I am already in Mississippi, further from home than I have ever been before.
I am now further from Doane’s Mill than I have been since I was twelve years old.
She had never even been to Doane’s Mill until after her father and mother died, though six or
eight times a year she wen