The Unvanquished (2011)
“It was written in the spring of 1934, while Faulkner was taking a break from his work on Absalom, Absalom! He needed to “boil the pot,” he claimed, and make some money from magazine sales. “Ambuscade,” published in The Saturday Evening Post on September 29, 1934, then, became the first of a series of seven stories about these boys, covering a period of about a decade and a half in their lives. Other stories in the series followed quickly: “Retreat,” (Saturday Evening Post, October 13, 1934); “Raid” (Saturday Evening Post, November 3, 1934); and “Drusilla” (Scribner’s, April 1935; retitled “Skirmish at Sartoris” in the book). At this point Faulkner broke off the series in order to complete Absalom, Absalom!, but took up the series again almost immediately after that novel was published in October 1936. “The Unvanquished” (retitled “Riposte in Tertio” in the book) was published in The Saturday Evening Post on November 14, 1936, and “Vendée” in The Saturday Evening Post on December 5 of ...the same year.MoreLess
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