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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Paperback at Amazon.com The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family. As I Lay Dying : The Corrected Text (Vintage International) by William Faulkner Paperback Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner Paperback Absalom, Absalom! : The Corrected Text (Vintage International) by William Faulkner Paperback |
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About the Author William Faulkner from Amazon.com William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962. Google William Faulkner links |
Novels by William Faulkner Soldiers' Pay, 1926, Mosquitoes, 1927. Sartoris, 1929. The Sound and the Fury, 1929. As I Lay Dying, 1930, Sanctuary, 1931, Light in August, 1932. Pylon, 1935. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936, The Unvanquished, 1938. The Wild Palms, 1939 The Hamlet 1940. Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories, 1942 Intruder in the Dust, 1948. Requiem for a Nun, 1951. A Fable, 1954. The Town 1957. The Long Hot Summer 1958. The Mansion 1959. Flags in the Dust 1973. |
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