William Faulkner

• Biography

  William Faulkner (1897–1962)  was a Nobel Prize–winning American novelist and short-story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories, but he was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. The majority of his works are based in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. In 1962, he was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction.

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  “The Sound and the Fury constituted an artistic breakthrough…Careful patterns of words and images…create an artistic unity that transcends the fragmented perspectives on display.” —The Guardian (London)

  “The Sound and the Fury is a masterpiece of the modernist movement that wasn’t afraid to reveal the dark side of the Mississippi aristocracy. It is a haunting tale you won’t soon forget.” —Medium

  “No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.” —Eudora Welty

  “William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is one of the monuments of High Modernism—America’s answer to James Joyce’s Ulysses.” —The Wall Street Journal

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  • The Sound and the Fury

  • By William Faulkner

    Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Bronson Pinchot, and Robin Miles

  • Release Date: 1/07/25

  • Formats: Hardcover

  A new collectible hardcover edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece, with thirteen brand-new illustrations

  A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin.

  Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own. Featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature—the beautiful and rebellious Caddy; the haunted and neurotic Quentin; the brutal and cynical Jason; and Dilsey, the matriarchal servant who observes them all—this novel is a heartrending investigation of family, legacy, social change, and the decline of a once powerful aristocratic dynasty.

  • The Sound and the Fury

  • By William Faulkner

    Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Bronson Pinchot, and Robin Miles

  • Release Date: 1/07/25

  • Formats: Hardcover

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