Description: Franklin Library leather edition of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Allan Mardon, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1974. Bound in royal blue leather, the book has French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a one-inch "blue streak" on back board----see PHOTO. William Cuthbert Faulkner, who lived from 1897 – 1962, was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi, known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. "The Sound and the Fury," which takes its title from Shakespeare's "Macbeth," describes the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the past 30 years, the Compson family has fallen into financial ruin, lost its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them have died tragically. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7th, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a cognitively disabled 33-year-old man. Benjy's section is characterized by a highly disjointed narrative style with frequent chronological leaps. The second section, June 2, 1910, focuses on Quentin Compson, Benjy's older brother, and the events leading up to his suicide. The third section, April 6, 1928, is narrated by Jason, Quentin's cynical younger brother. In the fourth and final section, set a day after the first, on April 8, 1928, Faulkner introduces a third person omniscient point of view, primarily focusing on Dilsey, one of the Compsons' black servants. On Easter Sunday, Dilsey and her daughter Frony are walking to church and Frony says: "Folks talking." She is referring to Dilsey bringing the "idiot" to church. Dilsey replies: "Whut folks? Trash white folks. Dat's who it is. Thanks he aint good enough fer white church, but nigger church aint good enough fer him." Dilsey says: "Tell um de good Lawd don't keer whether he smart er not. Don't nobody but white trash keer dat." Jason is also a focus in the section, but Faulkner presents glimpses of the thoughts and deeds of everyone in the family. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel, "The Sound and the Fury" as sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faulkner, the 1949 NOBEL PRIZE winner, is the "Chronicler of the South." 343 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Leather
Publisher: Franklin Library 100 Greatest
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1976
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Allan Mardon
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: Mississippi
Author: William Faulkner
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: The Compson Family & Dilsey
Character Family: Benjy, Caddie, Jason & Quentin
