And DY lists our dates, which in the case of these events agrees with Polk's revisions. VI: the Vintage International version (New York, 1990). RH: the first edition version (New York: Random House, 1936). The Ms column is Faulkner's manuscript version. The table below allows you to see the differences between these three chronologies, and to compare them with the dates Digital Yoknapatawpha uses for the same set of events. For this reason, when Noel Polk prepared his 'Corrected Text' of Absalom in 1986 for the Library of America, he also 'corrected' the Chronology 'in several instances to agree with the dates and facts of the novel.' After that date the various editions published by Random House and its subsidiary, Vintage International, all adopt Polk's revisions. Both Faulkner's manuscript and the published chronology contained several obvious errors, most notably dating the novel's present in September and December, 1910. The next is the Chronology that Random House published on pages 380-381 of the first edition (1936), and then subsequently reprinted in the Modern Library edition (1951) this revises the handwritten version in a number of ways. The earliest is the two-page manuscript version that Faulkner prepared in the summer of 1936 in response to his publisher's concerns about the complexity of the novel. The 'Chronology' included in the appendices of the Vintage International paperback edition of Absalom, Absalom! is the last of three different chronologies.

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