{"product_id":"the-sound-and-the-fury-isbn-9780679732242","title":"The Sound and the Fury","description":"\u003cb\u003eNOBEL PRIZE WINNER \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eOne of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e•  \u003c\/i\u003eThe definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e“I am in awe of Faulkner’s Benjy, James’s Maisie, Flaubert’s Emma, Melville’s Pip, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—each of us can extend the list.... I am interested in what prompts and makes possible this process of entering what one is estranged from.” —Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“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 WeltyWILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other  remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.April Seventh, 1928.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could  see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the  fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out,  and they were hitting. Then they put the flag back and they went to the table, and  he hit and the other hit. Then they went on, and I went along the fence. Luster came  away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped  and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Here, caddie.\"  He hit. They went away across the pasture. I held to the fence and watched them going  away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Listen at you, now.\" Luster said. \"Aint you something, thirty three years  old, going on that way. After I done went all the way to town to buy you that cake.  Hush up that moaning. Aint you going to help me find that quarter so I can go to  the show tonight.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They were hitting little, across the pasture. I went back along  the fence to where the flag was. It flapped on the bright grass and the trees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Come  on.\" Luster said. \"We done looked there. They aint no more coming right now. Les  go down to the branch and find that quarter before them niggers finds it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was  red, flapping on the pasture. Then there was a bird slanting and tilting on it. Luster  threw. The flag flapped on the bright grass and the trees. I held to the fence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Shut up that moaning.\" Luster said. \"I cant make them come if they aint coming,  can I. If you dont hush up, mammy aint going to have no birthday for you. If you  dont hush, you know what I going to do. I going to eat that cake all up. Eat them  candles, too. Eat all them thirty three candles. Come on, les go down to the branch.  I got to find my quarter. Maybe we can find one of they balls. Here. Here they is.  Way over yonder. See.\" He came to the fence and pointed his arm. \"See them. They  aint coming back here no more. Come on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We went along the fence and came to the  garden fence, where our shadows were. My shadow was higher than Luster's on the fence.  We came to the broken place and went through it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wait a minute.\" Luster said. \"You  snagged on that nail again. Cant you never crawl through here without snagging on  that nail.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caddy uncaught me and we crawled through. Uncle Maury said to not let  anybody see us, so we better stoop over, Caddy said. Stoop over, Benjy. Like this,  see. We stooped over and crossed the garden, where the flowers rasped and rattled  against us. The ground was hard. We climbed the fence, where the pigs were grunting  and snuffing. I expect they're sorry because one of them got killed today, Caddy  said. The ground was hard, churned and knotted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Keep your hands in your pockets,  Caddy said. Or they'll get froze. You dont want your hands froze on Christmas, do  you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It's too cold out there.\" Versh said. \"You dont want to go out doors.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"What  is it now.\" Mother said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"He want to go out doors.\" Versh said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Let him go.\" Uncle  Maury said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It's too cold.\" Mother said. \"He'd better stay in. Benjamin. Stop that,  now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It wont hurt him.\" Uncle Maury said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You, Benjamin.\" Mother said. \"If you  dont be good, you'll have to go to the kitchen.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Mammy say keep him out the kitchen  today.\" Versh said. \"She say she got all that cooking to get done.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Let him go,  Caroline.\" Uncle Maury said. \"You'll worry yourself sick over him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I know it.\"  Mother said. \"It's a judgment on me. I sometimes wonder.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I know, I know.\" Uncle  Maury said. \"You must keep your strength up. I'll make you a toddy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It just upsets  me that much more.\" Mother said. \"Dont you know it does.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You'll feel better.\"  Uncle Maury said. \"Wrap him up good, boy, and take him out for a while.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Uncle Maury  went away. Versh went away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Please hush.\" Mother said. \"We're trying to get you  out as fast as we can. I dont want you to get sick.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Versh put my overshoes and  overcoat on and we took my cap and went out. Uncle Maury was putting the bottle away  in the sideboard in the diningroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Keep him out about half an hour, boy.\" Uncle  Maury said. \"Keep him in the yard, now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Yes, sir.\" Versh said. \"We dont never  let him get off the place.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We went out doors. The sun was cold and bright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Where  you heading for.\" Versh said. \"You dont think you going to town, does you.\" We went  through the rattling leaves. The gate was cold. \"You better keep them hands in your  pockets.\" Versh said. \"You get them froze onto that gate, then what you do. Whyn't  you wait for them in the house.\" He put my hands into my pockets. I could hear him  rattling in the leaves. I could smell the cold. The gate was cold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Here some hickeynuts.  Whooey. Git up that tree. Look here at this squirl, Benjy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I couldn't feel the  gate at all, but I could smell the bright cold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You better put them hands back  in your pockets.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caddy was walking. Then she was running, her book-satchel swinging  and jouncing behind her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hello, Benjy.\" Caddy said. She opened the gate and came  in and stooped down. Caddy smelled like leaves. \"Did you come to meet me.\" she said.  \"Did you come to meet Caddy. What did you let him get his hands so cold for, Versh.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I told him to keep them in his pockets.\" Versh said. \"Holding on to that ahun gate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Did you come to meet Caddy,\" she said, rubbing my hands. \"What is it. What are  you trying to tell Caddy.\" Caddy smelled like trees and like when she says we were  asleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What are you moaning about, Luster said. You can watch them again when we  get to the branch. Here. Here's you a jimson weed. He gave me the flower. We went  through the fence, into the lot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"What is it.\" Caddy said. \"What are you trying  to tell Caddy. Did they send him out, Versh.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Couldn't keep him in.\" Versh said.  \"He kept on until they let him go and he come right straight down here, looking through  the gate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"What is it.\" Caddy said. \"Did you think it would be Christmas when I  came home from school. Is that what you thought. Christmas is the day after tomorrow.  Santy Claus, Benjy. Santy Claus. Come on, let's run to the house and get warm.\" She  took my hand and we ran through the bright rustling leaves. We ran up the steps and  out of the bright cold, into the dark cold. Uncle Maury was putting the bottle back  in the sideboard. He called Caddy. Caddy said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Take him in to the fire, Versh.  Go with Versh.\" she said. \"I'll come in a minute.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We went to the fire. Mother said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Is he cold, Versh.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Nome.\" Versh said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Take his overcoat and overshoes off.\"  Mother said. \"How many times do I have to tell you not to bring him into the house  with his overshoes on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Yessum.\" Versh said. \"Hold still, now.\" He took my overshoes  off and unbuttoned my coat. Caddy said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wait, Versh. Cant he go out again, Mother.  I want him to go with me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You'd better leave him here.\" Uncle Maury said. \"He's  been out enough today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I think you'd both better stay in.\" Mother said. \"It's  getting colder, Dilsey says.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Oh, Mother.\" Caddy said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Nonsense.\" Uncle Maury  said. \"She's been in school all day. She needs the fresh air. Run along, Candace.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Let him go, Mother.\" Caddy said. \"Please. You know he'll cry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Then why did you  mention it before him.\" Mother said. \"Why did you come in here. To give him some  excuse to worry me again. You've been out enough today. I think you'd better sit  down here and play with him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Let them go, Caroline.\" Uncle Maury said. \"A little  cold wont hurt them. Remember, you've got to keep your strength up.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I know.\" Mother  said. \"Nobody knows how I dread Christmas. Nobody knows. I am not one of those women  who can stand things. I wish for Jason's and the children's sakes I was stronger.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You must do the best you can and not let them worry you.\" Uncle Maury said. \"Run  along, you two. But dont stay out long, now. Your mother will worry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Yes, sir.\"  Caddy said. \"Come on, Benjy. We're going out doors again.\" She buttoned my coat and  we went toward the door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Are you going to take that baby out without his overshoes.\"  Mother said. \"Do you want to make him sick, with the house full of company.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I  forgot.\" Caddy said. \"I thought he had them on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We went back. \"You must think.\"  Mother said. Hold still now Versh said. He put my overshoes on. \"Someday I'll be  gone, and you'll have to think for him.\" Now stomp Versh said. \"Come here and kiss  Mother, Benjamin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caddy took me to Mother's chair and Mother took my face in her  hands and then she held me against her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"My poor baby.\" she said. She let me go.  \"You and Versh take good care of him, honey.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Yessum.\" Caddy said. We went out.  Caddy said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You needn't go, Versh. I'll keep him for a while.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"All right.\" Versh  said. \"I aint going out in that cold for no fun.\" He went on and we stopped in the  hall and Caddy knelt and put her arms around me and her cold bright face against  mine. She smelled like trees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You're not a poor baby. Are you. Are you. You've  got your Caddy. Haven't you got your Caddy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cant you shut up that moaning and slobbering,  Luster said. Aint you shamed of yourself, making all this racket. We passed the carriage  house, where the carriage was. It had a new wheel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Git in, now, and set still until  your maw come.\" Dilsey said. She shoved me into the carriage. T. P. held the reins.  \"Clare I dont see how come Jason wont get a new surrey.\" Dilsey said. \"This thing  going to fall to pieces under you all some day. Look at them wheels.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mother came  out, pulling her veil down. She had some flowers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Where's Roskus.\" she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Roskus  cant lift his arms, today.\" Dilsey said. \"T. 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