Sanctuary

📙 SANCTUARY, the sixth of William Faulkner's novels in order of publication, first appeared on February 9, 1931, but a draft of the manuscript had been finished nearly two years earlier. The first Modern Library edition of Sanctuary appeared in the following year (1932), printed from the original plates, as all subse­quent editions have been. These plates, because of the conditions surrounding their production, had a larger than usual number of typographical errors, most of them immediately recognizable as such. Some were discovered and corrected from time to time, but many remained. A great effort has been made in this new edition, which was entirely reset, to produce, with the co-operation of the author, the definitive text.