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Title:
The sound and the fury
Author:
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Edition:
Modern Library edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, 1992.
Physical Description:
ix, 348 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary:
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. From the Trade Paperback edition. 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.
General Note:
Series statement from jacket.

"The corrected text with Faulkner's appendix."
Language:
English
Reading Level:
870 Lexile.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC High School 10 19 Quiz: 14020 Guided reading level: NR.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780679600176
Format :
Book