Bent Northrop Memorial Library

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. 

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works...

"Front Porch pbks."--Cover.

"First Modern library edition, 1946." With a new appendix as a foreword by the author. The appendix for The sound and the Fury was written for The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley, and is used here by permission of the Viking Press. Both titles -- Oprah's Book Club 2005 selections.