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The Unvanquished is a coming-of-age novel set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Six of the seven stories were individually published in the Saturday Evening Post and Scribners before Faulkner finished it as a novel. The book is narrated by Bayard Sartoris as he looks back on his life on a Mississippi plantation from age 12 to 24.
The young Bayard thinks of war as a great adventure, and he has a "hero worshiping" attitude toward his father, Colonel John Sartoris, who leads a Confed ...more
The young Bayard thinks of war as a great adventure, and he has a "hero worshiping" attitude toward his father, Colonel John Sartoris, who leads a Confed ...more
Very interesting. This book is made up of 7 stories, the first 6 of which were published individually while Faulkner was working on Absalom, Absalom!. The stories are sequential, starting early in the Civil War and ending about 10 years later. It is told in the first person by the son of Colonel John Sartoris. I assume this is the same family as in Faulkner's first novel, Sartoris, which was later published in a more complete form as Flags in the Dust. I will look forward to reading that.
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