William Faulkner struggled going into 1929. His sprawling novel on fading southern aristocrats had been rejected by eleven publishers, and his novel in progress, a nonlinear streams-of-consciousness narrative, would be hard to sell. After severe cuts, the first novel became Sartoris, launching his Yoknapatawpha County saga. The second, The Sound and the Fury, was cited as his “breakthrough” in the award of his Nobel Prize. Both books reach the public domain in 19 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown