The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury

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eBook - ePub

The Sound and the Fury

About this book

As one Southern family struggles with its past, memory and time reveal the painful fractures hidden beneath its fading traditions. Enter William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, a challenging and influential novel about family, loss, identity, and the passage of time. The novel follows the Compson family, whose declining fortunes reflect deeper emotional and social conflicts. Through the perspectives of different family members, Faulkner presents fragmented memories, personal obsessions, family tensions, and contrasting interpretations of shared experiences. Its experimental structure and shifting narrative voices invite readers to piece together the family's story while exploring themes of change, suffering, tradition, and the difficulty of understanding other people. First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury became one of Faulkner's most celebrated works and a landmark of literary modernism. Explore Faulkner's extraordinary portrait of a family in decline and discover a novel that transforms memory, time, and perspective into powerful storytelling.

Table of contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. toc
  3. April Seventh, 1928
  4. June Second, 1910
  5. April Sixth, 1928
  6. April Eighth, 1928

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Information

Publisher
Elm & Ivory Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
eBook ISBN
9782700117653
Index
Literature

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