William Faulkner is one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century, but success was elusive with his first novel, <i>Soldiers’ Pay</i>, in 1926. The promising young author had not yet achieved the reputation that would lead to the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes. <br><br><i>Soldiers’ Pay</i> reflects Faulkner’s gift for keen observations, embracing his Southern experience, as well as his experimental narrative techniques blended with literary modernism. He captures the post–World War I atmosphere of the Lost Generation on American soil and explores the war’s emotional impact on three weary veterans and their hometown in Georgia.<br>