{"product_id":"the-sound-and-the-fury-hardcover-4","title":"The Sound and the Fury - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAyana Mathis\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collectible hardcover edition of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner's masterpiece, with a new introduction by Ayana Mathis, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury \u003c\/i\u003etraces the decline of the American South through three generations of the once-powerful Compson family. In Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi--perhaps the most famous fictional setting in American literature--antiquated ideas of race, class, and sex prevail among the erstwhile landed gentry of the Reconstruction-era South, embodied in the Compson siblings: Benjy, whose mental disability blurs the past and the present; Quentin, who is consumed by his obsession with his family's honor; Jason, who unleashes his blind rage on the rest of the household, especially their longtime Black servant, Dilsey; and their elusive sister, Caddy, whose tragic estrangement sets in motion the family's fall from grace. A kaleidoscopic narrative punctuated by haunting interior monologues, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life Faulkner's aristocratic South as a land of decadence and despair, gallantry and greed in the face of financial and moral ruin. What Faulkner once considered his \"most splendid failure\" was also his favorite of his novels; it now ranks among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and as one of the cornerstones of American fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Vitae--loosely translated as \"Penguin of one's life\"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Faulkner \u003c\/b\u003e(1897-1962) won the Nobel Prize in Literature for what are recognized as some of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury \u003c\/i\u003e(1929), \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying \u003c\/i\u003e(1930), \u003ci\u003e Light in August \u003c\/i\u003e(1932), and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom! \u003c\/i\u003e(1936). For many of his literary chronicles of life in the American South, he drew on his native Mississippi, which informed one of his greatest creations, the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, where a number of his novels are set. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he won the National Book Award twice, for \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(1951) and \u003ci\u003eA Fable \u003c\/i\u003e(1954), and the Pulitzer Prize twice, for \u003ci\u003eA Fable\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e (1962). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAyana Mathis\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling Oprah's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie \u003c\/i\u003eand the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a series of essays for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eon literature and faith. 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