| The Sound and the Fury Contributor(s): Faulkner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679732241 ISBN-13: 9780679732242 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90050274 |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12797 Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury |