Sanctuary: Original Classic 1931 Edition

Sanctuary was published in 1931 by William Faulkner (1897–1961), one of America’s greatest authors and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Originally the novel bore the steamy summary “Ole Miss coed Temple Drake ends up the sex slave of a gangster named Popeye.”

Sanctuary is perhaps Faulkner’s most lurid novel. It follows the trail of the sadistic and sociopathic Popeye, the degraded teenager Temple Drake, and Horace Benbow, an idealistic but dissatisfied lawyer.

Benbow is drawn in when...