Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all
time
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover
classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay
Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William
Faulkner's greatest book. It was immediately praised for its innovative
narrative technique, and comparisons were made with Joyce and
Dostoyevsky, but it did not receive popular acclaim until the late
forties, shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family,
doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through
the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and
Jason. Featuring a new Foreword by Marilynne Robinson, this edition
follows the text corrected in 1984 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk and
corresponds as closely as possible to the author's original intentions.
Included also is the Appendix that Faulkner wrote for The Portable
Faulkner in 1946, which he called the "key to the whole book."