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William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulkner's letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner s friend Ben Wasson, and both versions... Read Full Overview

La vida no es m s que una sombra... Una historia narrada por un necio, llena de ruido y furia, que nada significa. Macbeth, Shakespeare El ruido y la furia es una obra maestra de la literatura. Relata la degeneraci n progresiva de la familia Compson, sus secretos y las... Read Full Overview

In the early twentieth century, the Deep South was a landscape of profound transformation and tumultuous change, marked by societal decay, loss, and an enduring search for meaning. William Faulkner's haunting modernist masterpiece The Sound and the Fury , set in Mississippi,... Read Full Overview

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters... Read Full Overview

Sound and the Fury, The, by Faulkner, William

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.

Faulkner classic. Story told by three narrators to great effect. Southern.