THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL HARD COVER EDITION PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC.
This is a blazing novel of love and guilt, by one of America’s greatest writers, that movingly explores the passions and prejudices that exist in…
Trapped in a wave of mob hysteria. Lucas Beauchamp, an elderly Negro who is accused of the murder of a white man, is…
This major American novel, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is distinguished for its suspense, subtlety and gripping narrative power. Intruder in the Dust searches the conscience of the South as it wrestles with the demon of its guilt and love —its relationship to the Negro.
THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL HARD COVER EDITION PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC.
Other SIGNET Books by William Faulkner
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Long Hot Summer (Book III of The Hamlet)
Knight’s Gambit
Pylon
Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun
Sartoris
The Unvanquished
The Wild Palms and The Old Man
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Intruder in the Dust
A SIGNET BOOK
Chapter One
Because he knew Lucas Beauchamp too—as well that is as any white person knew…
“Shoot him! Shoot him!” then “Whyn’t you shoot him?” and then he turned…
There were no bells now. What people on the street now would have been going…
But he couldn’t stand on ceremony now. He had been walking pretty fast since…
“Aleck Sander and Miss Habersham helped:” which if anything seemed to be worse…
Or would have been and should have been; Sunday and they might have passed,…
And when they reached town a little before three this morning nobody could…
“Now he’s got two of them,” his uncle said.
“You fools, dont you see you are too late, that you’ll have to start all over…
“But why cant Miss Habersham come here to wait?”
But this one seemed to be even a Saturday among Saturdays so that presently…
THE END.