Cover of The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

396 pages~7 hrs

Four voices. One family. A legacy in ruins.

Experience the raw, unfiltered collapse of a once-great Mississippi dynasty as seen through the eyes of the broken, the obsessed, and the enduring. This revolutionary Southern Gothic masterpiece weaves a haunting tapestry of grief and memory that challenges the very boundaries of language and time.

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