A Fable (Pulitzer Prize 1955)

462 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Robert J. Lee. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. A historical novel of World War I set in France, A Fable was written in 1954, and won Faulkner the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955 (the first novel ever to win both). He spent over a decade on A Fable, and considered it his masterpiece when it was completed. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22.