BOOKS BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Faulkner, William, 1897–1962.
A fable.
1. European War, 1914–1918—Fiction. I. Title.
PZ.F272Fab7 PS3511.A86
813′.5′2
77-3039
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To William Bacher and Henry Hathaway of Beverly Hills, California, who had the basic idea from which this book grew into its present form; to James Street in whose volume,
W.F.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
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Contents
Wednesday
Monday: Monday Night
Tuesday Night
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday
Tuesday: Wednesday
Tuesday: Wednesday: Wednesday Night
Wednesday Night
Thursday: Thursday Night
Friday: Saturday: Sunday
Tomorrow
Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the city was already awake. These did not need to rise from the straw mattresses and thin pallet beds of their hive-dense tenements, because few of them save the children had ever lain down. Instead, they had huddled all night in one vast tongueless brotherhood of dread and anxiety, about the thin fires of braziers and meagre hearths, until the night wore at last away and a new day of anxiety and dread had begun.
