THE SOUND & THE FURY
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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About This Item
This is one of a mint-condition set of three matching books by the American author William Faulkner (1897-1962). They are first reissues, by his publisher (Random House) of Sanctuary, Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. They are simple red matte boards with gold lettering on the cover and spine. Lovely paper. They do not appear to have been read.
If you want more than one, let me know. You can find them in my store, under American Fiction.
This is The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929. It is about a family of former Southern aristocrats who struggle to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of 30 years, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of their Mississippi town, and many of them die tragically.
This copy: 249 pages, dated 1956. Pristine.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1231
- Title
- THE SOUND & THE FURY
- Author
- WILLIAM FAULKNER
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Re-Issue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 249
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mississippi
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Fiction;
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- Spine
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