Sartoris
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Sartoris is a novel, first published in 1929, by William Faulkner. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is a cut version of the novel published in full as Flags in the Dust in 1973. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris.
William Faulkner Novels |
Soldiers' Pay | Mosquitoes | Sartoris | The Sound and the Fury | As I Lay Dying | Sanctuary | Light in August | Pylon | Absalom, Absalom! | The Unvanquished | If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) | Go Down, Moses | Intruder in the Dust | Requiem for a Nun | A Fable | The Reivers | Flags in the Dust |
Snopes Series: The Hamlet | The Town | The Mansion |
Preceded by: none |
Novels set in Yoknapatawpha County | Succeeded by: The Sound and the Fury |