A Fable

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 2011

Copyright © 1950, 1954 by William Faulkner

Copyright renewed 1978, 1982 by Jill Faulkner Summers

Notes copyright © 1994 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., in 1954. This revised text and the notes are reprinted from Novels 1942–1954 by William Faulkner, published by The Library of America, in 1994, by permission.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Faulkner, William, 1897–1962.

A fable.

1. European War, 1914–1918—Fiction. I. Title.

PZ.F272Fab7 PS3511.A86

813′.5′2

77-3039

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