The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism by C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard H. King, Ben Wasson, David Minter, Ralph Ellison, Irving Howe, William Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard H. King, Ben Wasson, David Minter, Ralph Ellison, Irving Howe, William Faulkner

446 pages • first pub 1929 • 2 editions

fiction classics dark emotional slow-paced

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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their blac...