William Faulkner INTRUDER IN THE DUST 1948 First Printing Original Dust Jacket American Author Novel Literature Stream of Consciousness Narration Civil War Lucas Beauchamp Southern Racial Issues Social Commentary South

Title: Intruder in the Dust
Author: William Faulkner ‾ William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.

Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year: 1948
Printing Information: First Printing
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 247 pages
Width: 5.75″ Height: 8.25″
Book Details: Bound in black cloth with gilt and blue lettering and design, this vintage first printing retains its original dust jacket. Intruder in the Dust helped to propel Faulkner to his 1949 Nobel Prize.

The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the efforts of black and white teenagers and a spinster from a long‾established Southern family. It was written as Faulkner′s response as a Southern writer to the racial problems facing the South. In his Selected Letters, Faulkner wrote: ″the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the Govt. or anybody else owe and must pay a responsibility to the negro.″

Intruder in the Dust is notable for its use of stream of consciousness style of narration. The novel also includes lengthy passages on the Southern memory of the Civil War, one of which Shelby Foote quoted in Ken Burns′ documentary The Civil War.

The characters of Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner′s collection of short fiction, Go Down, Moses. A story by Faulkner, ″Lucas Beauchamp″, was published in 1999.

Intruder in the Dust was turned into a film of the same name directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. The film was shot in Faulkner′s home town of Oxford, Mississippi.
Condition / Notes: This vintage book shows well, with some age/wear indications including mild shelfwear with small indentations to the front board. The binding and text block are sound. Text is clear and crisp on clean pages. The original dust jacket shows very well, with minor marginal chipping/creasing.

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