The Sound and the Fury

The classic Southern Gothic tale that recounts the demise of a once-prominent Mississippi family, from the Nobel Prize– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “the greatest artist the South has produced” (Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man ). In the early twentieth century, when scandal erupts in the Compson family of Jefferson, Misssissippi, it is the eldest daughter, beautiful and rebellious Caddy, at the center of it all. But it’s the rest of the family who must deal with the fallout. Ther