Soldier's Pay

After the end of World War I a group of soldiers traveling by train across the United States are on their way home. One is horribly scarred blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him safely home to Georgia to a family that believes him dead—and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. This is William Faulkner's first novel a powerful tale of lives blighted by war.