Flags in the Dust is a novel by the American author
William Faulkner, completed in 1927. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing about 40,000 words in the process. That version was published as
Sartoris in 1929. Faulkner's original manuscript of
Flags in the Dust was published in 1973, and
Sartoris was subsequently taken out of print.