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VINTAGE CLASSICS THE SOUND AND THE FURY - WIL...

A towering  intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature  With an
introduction by Richard Hughes  Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in
1929  The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century.
Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives 
The Sound and the Fury explores intense  passionate family relationships where there is no love
only self-centredness. At its heart this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no
grief  only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to
your guts?'  Born in 1897 in New Albany  Mississippi  William Faulkner was the son of a family
proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford  Mississippi 
and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military
in 1915  he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF  but was still in training when the war
ended. Returning home  he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly
in 1925.   His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse
and early novels followed  but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the
Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930)  Sanctuary (1931)  Light in August (1932)  Absalom 
Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period
leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s  he worked in Hollywood on film
scripts  notably The Blue Lamp  co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his
death in July1962.

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