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Sanctuary was first published under unusual circumstances. Faulkner often repeated a story he tells in his 1932 introduction to the Modern Library edition. The original manuscript was "a cheap idea, because it was deliberately conceived to make money." The manuscript was set up for printing, but before he saw the proofs, he published The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930). When he saw the proofs, he was ashamed of the book, so he reworked it, saving as much of the original as he could, but making it into a book that would not shame his other books....
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