![]() ![]() Using four previously unknown Faulkner typescripts, along with other manuscript and typescript evidence, John N. Sometimes northern editors removed the southernness of Faulkner's stories, either out of ignorance of the South or in order to appeal to a mass audience. These changes were made variously for concision, propriety, or magazine design. Since tear sheets of the five previously published stories were used in setting the first edition, the original Knight's Gambit is a hodgepodge of various magazines? house styles with no consistency in punctuation and spelling conventions from story to story.įar greater issues arise, however, from the substantive (and sometimes substantial) changes magazine editors made to Faulkner's prose. ![]() All previous and current editions of Knight's Gambit have been based on the first edition, which is fraught with a number of problems. ![]() Originally published in 1949, William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit is a collection of six stories written in the 1930s and 1940s that focus on the criminal investigations of Yoknapatawpha's long-time county attorney, Gavin Stevens?a man more interested in justice than the law. ![]()
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