Sound and the Fury

The classic Southern Gothic tale that recounts the demise of a once-prominent Mississippi family, from the Nobel Prize– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author and "the greatest artist the South has produced" (Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man). In the early twentieth century, when scandal erupts in the Compson family of Jefferson, Misssissippi, it is the eldest daughter, beautiful and rebellious Caddy, at the center of it all. But it's the rest of the family who must deal with the fallout. There are Caddy's three brothers: manchild Benjy, neurotic and conservative Quentin, and ruthless and cynical Jason. Meanwhile, Dilsey, the family's Black servant, keeps house. Together, these four bear witness as the Compson family ties begin to unravel . . . Originally published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner's fourth novel. Although it was not an immediate success, it has since gone on to be considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, as well as Faulkner's masterpiece.