These characters inhabit Jefferson, Mississippi, the central town in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting of many of his novels (and most of his greatest works). Light In August tells the interweaving stories of a cast of very different characters all trying to make their way in the South. Light In August was not as experimental as the two masterpieces that preceded it, The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, but it continued and refined many of the themes that Faulkner had developed earlier in his career. He published Light In August in 1931, thus beginning the period of the publication of much of his best work. Light In August was the first book Faulkner published after gaining some public success with Sanctuary, the book he wrote for commercial gain only.
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