The Sound and the Fury

First published in 1929, this novel presents the Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi, in four movements. The first is the unbroken sensory present of the disabled Benjy; the second is Quentin Compson's Harvard day in 1910, haunted by his sister Caddy; the third is the bitter account of their brother Jason; the fourth follows the servant Dilsey through an Easter Sunday. Caddy's absence and the family's decline organise the book. It is a modernist family novel told through broken time, not a linear plantation chronicle.

Quarter-bound in vermilion goatskin leather with split boards with grey paper sides printed letterpress in black with type ornaments designed by Russell Maret. Tile gilt blocked on spine. Printed on Abbey Wove paper using 14 different colours of ink. Gilded top page edge. COMMENTARY VOLUME -bound in grey buckram, title gilt blocked on spine. Slipcase -both volumes presented in grey cloth-bound slipcase with vermilion leather titling label.