Faulkner wanted the Appendix to be the first section of the book, which is how it appeared in early editions, but later it was put at the end. Scholars and critics have frequently treated it as an equal part of the novel, although many consider it to be as separate and distinct from The Sound and the Fury as “That Evening Sun” and other stories involving the Compson family are separate and distinct fictional entities. The text published here is newly edited by Noel Polk from Faulkner’s carbon typescript.
