The main narrative, which is presented in dramatic form, is interspersed with prose sections recounting the history of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

This is true of the fathers of Yoknapatawpha County, and no less so of the broken young things who live in Cheever country.

Yoknapatawpha County, from the works of William Faulkner.

The novels create a history of a broad region, evoking comparisons to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.

Its plantation and the fictional Yoknapatawpha County are in Mississippi.

A once prominent family in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the family began to fall on hard times in the twentieth century.

Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county".

Faulkner made Yoknapatawpha County the most famous region in American literature.

He previously had referred to writing a "Golden Book of Yoknapatawpha County" with which he would finish his literary career.

Faulkner created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County with the town of Jefferson - some say Oxford - at its heart.