Larger	The Sound and the Fury : The Corrected Text Author: William Faulkner, Noel Polk (Editor)
	Book Information Publisher: Vintage Book Type: Paperback Rating: 9 ISBN-13: 9780394747743 - ISBN-10: 0394747747 Publication Date: 2/12/1987 Pages: 378 Book Reviews

William Faulkner often said that The Sound and the Fury was the closest to his heart of all his novels because it had cost him the most grief and anguish to write. In this magnificent novel, first published in 1929, he 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 suicide Quentin and the monstrous Jason. His fourth novel, it is the first of his indisputable masterpieces, displaying in its passion and its power the full range of his genius. By turns lyrical and dramatic, hilarious and heartbreaking, it is the novel which, perhaps more than any other, has established Faulkner as a central figure in twentieth-century literature.