Author(s): William Faulkner

Fiction

Attorney Gavin Stevens, a wise and forbearing student of crime and a recurring character in William Faulkner's novels, plays the leading role in these six stories of violence. A man more interested in justice than in the Jaw. Stevens deploys his ingenious detective skills and his insight? into the folkways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, to uncover hidden motives. For this newly restored edition of Knight's Gambit editor John N. Duvall compared the 1949 text to newly discovered original typescripts, allowing him to reverse the significant changes and deletions that editors had made when the stories were initially published in magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The resulting text, with more than 4,000 words restored, allows readers to experience Faulkner's suspenseful tales as he intended them.