The Sound and the Fury (1976 Franklin Library edition) by William Faulkner is a lavishly bound version of the 1929 modernist masterpiece that chronicles the decline of the Compson family in Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulkner’s experimental narrative unfolds through four perspectives, including the stream-of-consciousness monologues of Benjy, the intellectually disabled son, and Quentin, the tormented Harvard student obsessed with his sister Caddy’s lost virtue. The fractured timeline and shifting voices mirror the family’s disintegration amid Southern aristocracy’s decay.
The Franklin Library edition—full leather binding, gilt accents, and moiré endpapers—elevates Faulkner’s dense, poetic prose into a collector’s artifact. Often accompanied by a scholarly preface, this volume honors one of literature’s most challenging and influential works.
A cornerstone of 20th-century fiction, The Sound and the Fury wrestles with time, memory, and the weight of the past.
