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The Sound And The Fury: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism

The Sound And The Fury: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (2nd edition) Paperback - 1994

by Faulkner, Willaim

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New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. A Norton Critical Edition. Second Edition, 1994. First published 1929. Editor David Minter. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean, bright, glossy wrappers, pages in fine condition. Book has a wave to it that may go away after shelving with weight. William Faulkner, 1887-1962, was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He is one of the most important American writers of literature generally and specifically of Southern literature. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949 and 2 of his novels won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In this story you will meet the Compson family of Mississippi, formerly genteel Southern patricians--now living a degenerate, perverted life on their shrunken plantation near Jefferson, Mississippi. 446 pages. 8vo. 1994, W. W. Norton, New York. ISBN10: 0393964817, ISBN13: 9780393964813
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  • Title The Sound And The Fury: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (2nd edition)
  • Author Faulkner, Willaim
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton, New York
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 028814
  • ISBN 9780393964813 / 0393964817
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.2 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Brothers and sisters
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93005785
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

William Faulkner once described The Sound and the Fury, his fourth novel, as “a real son-of-a-bitch” and “the greatest I’ll ever write.” Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, the novel — a classic example of Southern gothic literature — traces the decaying values of the Southern society through the downfall of the aristocratic Compson family. The Sound and the Fury is structured into four distinct sections and perspectives: Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a mentally disabled 33-year-old man, narrates Part 1: April 7, 1928; Benjy’s older brother, Quentin, narrates Part 2: June 2, 1910; Jason, the youngest Compson brother, narrates April 6, 1928; and Part 4: April 8, 1928 (the day after Part 1) is narrated by a newly introduced third person omniscient point of view.

Like James Joyce and other Modernist writers, Faulkner experimented with various narrative techniques, including narrator shifts, frequent times shifts, unconventional punctuation and sentence structure, and — perhaps most predominantly — stream-of-consciousness. Revealing the inner thoughts of the characters to the reader, the narration of The Sound and the Fury is attentive to the events surrounding each character in the present, but also frequently returns to their memories of the past. In doing so, the four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes, each from different points of view.

While initial sales of The Sound and the Fury well less than impressive, the novel became commercially successful with the 1931 publication of Faulkner’s sixth novel, Sanctuary. Still, not one of Faulkner’s novels that followed ever generated as much critical response as The Sound and the Fury. The author was praised for this ability to effectively capture the intimate processes of the human mind in the novel and it played a role in William Faulkner's receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

First Edition Identification

Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith first published Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury in New York in 1929. While the dust jackets state the original price of $3.00 on the rear panel, first editions of this novel can sell for upwards of $30,000.

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