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  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099475019
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

The Sound and the Fury





A towering, intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literarture.

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard Hughes

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, the novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart, this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it.

What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'

  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099475019
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

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Praise for The Sound and the Fury

Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes like an angel

Arnold Bennett

For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterisation, humour and tragic intensity [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country

Robert Penn Warren

One of the most important works of American literature this century

Observer

Not only was the book a kind of beginning for me, but that it endured still, it moved me deeply and remains "the damndest book I ever read"

Niall Williams, Sunday Times

Its unlike anything else in literature... The experience of reading it seemed closer to the experience of life than anything provided by a neatly contrived story line... After the war I read all I could of William Faulkner, and he continued to present some unique and, it seemed to me, valid way of looking at life

Nicholas Mosley, Guardian