But it was be cause she believed that the people who saw her and whom she passed on foot would believe that she lived in the town too. He thought that it was because of the smooth streets, the sidewalks. She would not tell her father why she wanted to walk in instead of riding. After she got to be a big girl she would ask her father to stop the wagon at the edge of town and she would get down and walk. She would put on the shoes just before the wagon reached town. She had never even been to Doane’s Mill until after her father and mother died, though six or eight times a year she went to town on Saturday, in the wagon, in a mail-order dress and her bare feet flat in the wagon bed and her shoes wrapped in a piece of paper beside her on the seat. I am now further from Doane’s Mill than I have been since I was twelve years old.
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. Publication date was October 6, 1932.Ĭhapter 1 SITTING beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. 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. ISBN: 9-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-12716 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Originally published by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in 1932. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. 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. VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE/NEW YORK
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