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.

Bound in blocked cloth. Grey slipcase with printed label.